A complaint against Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, actor Anushka Sharma, film director Ali Zafar Abbas and others was heard in a local court in Muzaffarpur in a case of alleged cheating.
Mohammad Sabir Ansari alias Sabir Baba, a resident of Muzaffarpur, in a complaint case filed in the chief judicial magistrate’s court here on 8 July, had contended that Salman, the lead of Sultan released last week, had promised to give him Rs 20 crore as royalty for making a film based on his life.
His counsel, Sudhir Kumar Ojha said that Sabir had narrated his tale to Salman in Mumbai in 2010 and the actor then promised the money if a film was made based on it.
The case came up for hearing today before the CJM, Muzaffarpur, Ram Chandra Prasad, who transferred it to the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, S K Tripathi and fixed 26 July, 2016 as the next date of hearing.
The case has been filed under various sections of IPC including 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation).
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