Bollywood actress sentenced for six-months! Details below

In Bollywood, many actors tend to go through lack of work and it has been a common phenomenon. In the contemporary period, actors facing financial issues have been a wheel out. Koena Mitra who is a Bollywood actress has been booked for a case of cheque bouncing. 

Earlier this month, Actress Koena Mitra has been convicted by a metropolitan magistrate's court in a case of cheque bouncing. The actress was also sentenced to simple imprisonment of six months, earlier this month. The case was registered after a complaint was lodged against Koena by model Poonam Sethi. Koena was asked to pay Rs 4.64 lakh, of which Rs 1.64 lakh was the interest component, to the complainant.

As per the reports in Times Now, the Musafir actress has denied all the allegations against her and would be challenging the verdict. Andheri Metropolitan Court Magistrate Ketaki Chavan rejected most of the arguments raised by Koena.

She battled that the complainant did not have sufficient financial capacity in order to be able to lend Rs 22 lakh. As per the details of the case, Koena borrowed a sum of Rs 22 lakh over a period of time. When it came to the repayment of the loan, Koena offered Sethi a cheque worth 3 lakh, which was later dishonoured by the bank.

The model sent a legal notice, dated July 19, 2013. In October, the same year, she filed a court complaint. The other point of contention offered by Koena during the hearing in the court that the complainant stole her cheques. She had reportedly further argued that Sethi was lending money illegally. To this, the court held that the arguments were mutually contradicting.

Furthermore, the report also mentioned the court saying, “Furthermore, in the present matter, said cheque is not dishonoured on the count of ‘payment stopped by drawer’. It is dishonoured on the count of ‘funds insufficient’. If at all, it is presumed that complainant took the cheques from the accused’s house, which was blank and misused them, then the option of stopping the payment was very well available with the accused. But she did not do anything like this. Thus, the conduct of accused prior and subsequent to the dishonoured of said cheque constrained me to hold that this defence is an afterthought and taken only to evade the liability,”

For the unversed, Koena has appeared in Bollywood films namely- Musafir, Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena, Apna Sapna Money Money, Insan and many more.