Palghar: A Vasai Court on Saturday sent arrested tv actor Pearl V. Puri to 14 days’ judicial custody, officers mentioned.
Puri, who was nabbed late on Friday evening on alleged expenses of molesting and raping a five-year outdated woman two years in the past, was produced earlier than the Vasai Sessions Court Judge Aditi Kadam who granted Puri judicial custody for 14 days.
Puri is probably going to transfer an software in search of bail, which is able to come up for listening to in the court docket on Monday.
The 31-year-old “Naagin 3” actor was booked by Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar Police Commissionerate, invoking expenses of IPC Sec. 376 AB and POCSO Act, 4, 8, 12,19, 21 for the rape of the minor woman, mentioned the officers.
According to the Valiv Police Station, which lodged the case, the sufferer’s household had complained that Puri allegedly molested and raped the five-year-old woman round two years in the past, when he had come right here for a capturing.
Meanwhile, a number of associates and trade colleagues of the actor took to social media on Saturday to specific their assist for Pearl.
These embrace producer Ekta Kapoor, actors Anita Hassanandani, Asmita Sood, Nikki Sharma, Roma Bali, Surbhi Jyoti, Nia Sharma, Aamir Ali, Arjun Bijlani, Krystle Dsouza, Shalin Bhanot, Adhvik Mahajan and Sheetal Dabholkar amongst others.
