Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Tanushree slapped with 2 legal notices

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Actress Tanushree Dutta has received two legal notices, one each on behalf of veteran actor Nana Patekar and filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri. She says it is the “price” you pay for “speaking out against harassment, humiliatio­n and injustice in India”.

“I’ve been slapped with two legal notices on Thursday. One from Nana Patekar and another from Vivek Agnihotri. This is the price you pay for speaking out against harassment, humiliatio­n and injustice in India,” Tanushree said in a statement.

The former beauty queen said both Nana and Agnihotri’s teams are on a smear campaign against her by constructi­ng outright lies and misinforma­tion on social media platforms and other public platforms.

She said: “Today while I was at home and the police personnel posted outside my home were on a lunch break, two unnamed suspicious individual­s tried getting into our home uninvited but were stopped just in time...Violent threats are being issued against me by the Maharashtr­a Navnirman Sena (MNS) party.

“I am being threatened to be dragged into the court and legal system of India which we all know can keep a woman and her supporters as well as media silent on the pretext of ‘matter subjudice’, but can also further be used to harass her and drain her out financiall­y.”

The actress last month spoke out against alleged harassment she faced from Nana on the sets of a 2008 film.

She had been vocal about her experience even a decade ago, but says she was silenced due to the power game.

Nana had last week dismissed Tanushree’s claim, while Agnihotri has said she is pulling off a publicity stunt.

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