Actor Nora Fatehi had recently filed a defamation case against her fellow actor Jacqueline Fernandez in connection with the ₹200 crore extortion case involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar. Nora claimed that Jacqueline had spread false rumors about her for “malicious reasons” to finish her career.
According to reports ,Nora has filed the case over a written plea before the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002) court where Jacqueline stated that she was “falsely being implicated by the ED while celebs such as Nora Fatehi, who had also received gifts from conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, had been made witness”.
Nora Fatehi claims that such defamatory statements are being fabricated by Jacqueline with intention to ruin her reputation and professional career. Nora also adds that the success of an artist’s career solely depends on their reputation .
As per Norah’s complaint moved through her counsel advocate Vikram Chauhan, it says “Jacqueline Fernandez is also an actress and is pretty well known in the film industry. She has also been made an accused in the Sukesh Chandrashekhar Rs 200 crore money-laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate. That the defamatory imputations were made by Fernandez due to malicious reasons, apart from that, Fernandez sought to criminally defame the complainant to destroy her career to further her own interests since she is also in Bollywood,” .
“Fernandez has unnecessarily dragged and defamed me as I am in the same industry. She is fully aware that any artist’s business and career are solely based on their reputation. This clearly establishes that the said imputation has been made with the intention and knowledge that such imputation will harm the reputation of the complainant,” her plea read.
As per reports , the Enforcement Directorate (ED) talked to Nora Fatehi on December 2 about the Rs 200 crore money laundering case involving con artist Sukesh Chandrashekhar and the court will hear the case next on December 19.
However if latest reports are to be believed then Jacqueline Fernandez’s lawyer, Prashant Patil has reacted to the reports and also reveals to fight back aggressively in court, and even plan to file a counter suit.
The lawyer was quoted as saying to HT , “Right now, Jacqueline will not react to it as of now because the court has not taken cognizance of that suit yet. It is only Nora, or somebody, who has leaked the news into the media. Let the court take cognizance, if they do, we will definitely go for quashing it. And once Nora steps into the box, we will definitely conduct cross examination,”
He further added , “First, where did this come from? Fernandez has replied in the court to the higher authority where there was me, ED and the authority. And these proceedings are not made in the public domain. If that is not made in the public domain, it is not defamation… During the course of arguments, whatever is said, cannot be raised to defamation and can’t be put in public domain. If certain media agencies have pulled out her responses and circulated, it is for the media agencies to answer,” he says.
