After being accused of rape, Karan Oberoi gets support from Bollywood's fashion designer Subhash Singh's daughter Sonali Singh

Karan Oberoi who became a household name for his stint in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi recently made headlines. The actor has been arrested by police when a woman allegedly charged him of rape on the pretext of marrying her. The police took him in custody and reports suggests that he will be there till May 9. While the actor is supposedly going to be summoned by the court today, a friend of him has come out in his support.

Bollywood's fashion designer Subhash Singh's daughter Sonali Singh has defended the actor-singer-model. According to reports, Sonali has claimed that her friend Karan cannot do such a heinous crime as she knows him since a long time. Sonali further stated that Karan was focused on his work and this news came as a shocker to her. 

She also explained that she has styled Karan and worked with him. On further enquiry, she revealed that she doesn't know the woman who has put the charges on Karan. Although Sonali revealed that Karan shared information about a girl who was harassing her since a year and he used to be very disturbed. Sonali revealed in a statement, "When this #MeToo broke out in India, he was again very disturbed. He used to come on the set and tell me that the girl's harassment was subjecting him to go to Oshiwara Police Station frequently. All I know is that she was forcing him to marry her." 

She further told, "Karan may have broken up with Mona Singh (they were dating during Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin), but never spoke anything bad about her. If and when the topic of Mona arose when I was around, in fact he spoke very fondly and respectfully about her. He was never into any messing with girls. He is a gentleman."

Meanwhile, a report of BT suggests that a non-cognisable complaint (NC) was lodged by the woman against Karan in October 2018. She has already accused Karan of using her financially. Karan too had also filed an NC against her for mental harassment 10 days prior to it. BT reached out to them and they shared different versions. But they couldn't carry it as the girl didn't want to come out in public with the story.

HER VERSION:

 "Karan and I got in touch on a dating app. Initially, he asked me to share basic pictures, followed by nudes, with him guiding me on how they should be taken. We met in October 2016, and got intimate for the first time. We met again four days later and when I told him that I am into healing, he requested me to help him in his career. I started helping him and that’s how I began spending money on him. I replaced his fake gemstones with expensive ones, which cost me around Rs 90,000. 

He said that he would pay me later, but never did. 

In May 2017, he told me that his house had been mortgaged and he didn’t want to lose it. I gave him over a lakh for several months to help him save his house. I would give him money otherwise, too, for his expenses. Just doing up his house cost me around Rs 4 lakhs and I also bought him a karaoke console, refrigerator, laptop and a mobile phone. He would ask me to get expensive things for him whenever I travelled abroad for my work. 

The demands were covert — he would tell me that he has been planning to buy a particular item since long, but hasn’t been able to because of money constraints, knowing that I would buy it for him. We were like a couple. However, he never committed and told me that he didn’t want to be in that space as he had been cheated on in his previous relationships. We would often fight over it, but I would keep returning to him after swearing to end the relationship. 

I felt bad for pressurizing him to commit to me while he was going through the stress of losing his house and facing a financial crunch. He also said that had he been better off financially, he would never have let me go. Besides the fact that he never committed to me, the last nail in the coffin was when someone close to him told me that he was just using me. That’s when I asked Karan to return everything I gave him, but he flatly refused. 

Right now, my biggest concern are the suggestive pictures and videos that we exchanged. In fact, he wanted to shoot us while having sex, but I declined. I am not sure whether he has deleted them or not, though he tells me he has. But for my sanity, I need to be certain that the pictures have been deleted.”

HIS VERSION:

"I may have flirted with her initially, but then, I am a single guy. There was absolutely no relationship, intimacy or sex between us. I have blocked her from everywhere, as I figured her out almost immediately. She said that her father used to hit her and that no man has ever loved her. I just lent her a sympathetic ear because of what she had claimed to have been through. 

She told me that she is into occult and wanted to come out of it and pursue an alternative profession. She then suggested that she could do up my house and I decided to help her by allowing her to do that. That was the biggest mistake of my life. I have two houses in Mumbai and neither of them has been mortgaged. I gave her cash to buy items for my home, as she offered me a better deal. 

Every piece of furniture and other things that she is claiming to have bought for me, including my clothes, have been paid for by me. After getting fed up of her intrusion, around six months ago, I gave standing instructions to the guard of my building that this woman should not be allowed to come up to my flat. She cut her wrist once and threatened me that she would have me booked for an abetment of suicide. I figured out that something was amiss and that’s when I decided to distance myself from her. 

While she is claiming to be in a relationship even now, I distanced myself in August 2016. If you think just because I send you hugs and love you are in a relationship with me, you must be really twisted, because then I’d be in a relationship with 50,000 women. I have never robbed a woman of her dignity, but this is not normal. 

I am the victim here. 

I have lived a nightmare for these two years. The only reason I would answer her calls once in a while was to protect my family, as I feared that she could harm them with black magic. My worry was my mother and my health woes, as she claimed that she had the power to do anything. I have been through hell just because I declined her requests of getting into a relationship with her or have any kind of intimacy with her. She filed an NC against me after she learnt about my complaint. In fact, on the day of filing the NC, she called me and said that she was at the cop station and told me that she would ruin my life if I didn’t marry her the next day. I have blocked several numbers from which she called me. If you are willing to stoop to any level to get your way, where does it end?”  

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