New Delhi: Mumbai Police arrested television show ‘Naagin 3’ actor Pearl V Puri in the investigation of the rape of a minor girl. The TV industry is in utter shock and many have come out in his support.
Pearl was arrested from Vasai. Sanjay Patil, DCP Vasai Virar, said “The incident is old but the 17 year old minor victim complained to us along with her mother at the police station and we registered case under Section 376 (rape) of IPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act(POCSO) Act, 2012.”
Pearl’s alleged ex-girlfriend, Karishma Tanna announced that he has been granted bail.
Now, Ekta Kapoor has shared the conversation she has been having with the alleged victim’s parents since last night and tried to reveal the truth.
Taking to her IG handle, Ekta Kapoor wrote, “Will I support a child molester…or a molester of any kind? But what I witnessed from last night to now, was the absolute low in human depravity. How can humanity go to this level? How can people who are upset with each other, drag a third person into their own fight? How can a human being take on another human being and do this? After various calls with the child‘s/girl’s mother, who openly said that Pearl was not involved and it’s her husband trying to create stories to keep her child and prove that a working mother on a set cannot take care of her kid.”
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Ekta further shared that the ‘Me Too’ movement has been frivolously used by the girl’s father to meet his agenda. She shared that she has voice messages between her and the girl’s mother, which prove Pearl’s innocence. She added, “If this is true then it is wrong on so many levels! Using an extremely important movement like ‘Me Too’ frivolously, to get your own agendas met with and mentally torturing a child and making an innocent person guilty. I have no right to decide, the courts will decide who is right & wrong. My opinion only comes from what the girl’s mother said to me last night & that is – Pearl is innocent …and it is very very sad if people are using various tactics to prove working mothers are unable to take care of their children, because there are predators on the set. I have all the voice notes and messages between the child’s mother and me which clearly points to the false allegations being put on Pearl. The film industry is as safe or as unsafe as any other business. To give it a bad name to get your agenda sorted is the lowest form of low ever. If by chance, Pearl is proved innocent, I request people to look more deeply into how the important & much needed movements in today’s time, are being used unfairly reducing the gravitas of the situation. May justice prevail! #MayJusticePrevail @pearlvpuri.”
