Rape Accused Karan Oberoi Submits Proof of Consent in his Bail Application!

Actor Karan Oberoi, who was taken into judicial custody of 14 days after an astrologer accused him of rape, filed for bail plea on Friday. In his plea, he submitted texts messages exchanged between the woman and him, as proof of consent. He also termed the FIR filed against him as ‘false’, an action meant to harass and called his relationship with the accuser consensual.

Talking to a newspaper, Karan’s lawyer, Dinesh Tiwari said, “The bail application will be heard next week before the holiday court,” he added, “That the case against my client is false and is demonstrated from the messages exchanged between the parties.”

He said in his plea that the allegations against him “inspire no confidence” and the communication exchanged between him and the woman astrologer “exposes (her) vengeful attitude”. He said his arrest on May 5 by Oshiwara police and their plea for continued custody even on May 9 (Thursday) was with the “oblique purpose to harass” him.

He contends in the pleas that on Thursday, after being “made aware of the falsity of the allegations”, the magistrate refused to continue his police custody and remanded him in judicial custody.

The woman “claimed to practice black magic” and threatened to use it on Oberoi, the actor contended in his bail application, and also that “owing to her torturous behaviour” he blocked her number on “numerous occasions”, though she would “contact through new numbers repeatedly”. In the document, the actor denied that he “demanded anything”, and “it was only to lure” him that the woman would “insist on getting him gifts”.

To protect her interest, Oberoi stated in his plea, she filed a non-cognizable case on October 15, 2018 against him, in which “she never alleged being manipulated and misrepresented by him”.

One of the allegations against Oberoi is that he had expressed an intention to have a serious, committed relationship with the astrologer. The actor denies this in his bail plea. “The very fact that the applicant (Oberoi) and the first informant (the woman) had met through a dating app goes on to show that the intention of either party was not to get into a serious relationship,” the plea states, and also that it was she who “since inception” did “try to seduce” him by sending photographs. Attaching copies of the exchanges—submitted earlier to the police—to the plea, Oberoi said in it that they show he never “forced or manipulated” her.