A Rajasthan court has acquitted Bollywood actors Sunny Deol and Karisma Kapoor in a 22-year-old case of illegally pulling the emergency chain of a train while shooting for a film.
The two had challenged in the sessions court the order from a railway court framing charges against them. Additional District Judge Pawan Kumar granted relief to Sunny and Karisma on Friday, A K Jain, the counsel for the two actors, said Saturday 12 October.
The actors were accused of illegally pulling the chain of train 2413-A Uplink Express, which led to its delay by 25 minutes. The counsel said the charges were initially read out against both the actors in 2009, which they challenged in a sessions court in April 2010.
The session court exonerated both the actors, but on 17 September this year, the railway court again framed charges against the two following which the actors pleaded in the district and sessions court, Jain said.
Besides Sunny and Karisma, stuntman Tinu Verma and Satish Shah were also accused in the case but they had not challenged the charges against them in the sessions court in 2010.
Then assistant station master Sitaram Malakar of Narena had lodged the complaint at the General Railway Police, following which the actors were accused of violating Section 141 (needlessly interfering with the means of communication in a train), Section 145 (drunkenness or nuisance), Section 146 (obstructing a railway servant in his duties) and Section 147 (trespass and refusal to desist from trespass) of the Railways Act.
In 1997, Sunny and Karisma, along with other crew members, were shooting for the film Bajrang at Sanvarda village near Phulera in Ajmer district.
(Inputs: PTI)
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