A Delhi court frames rape charge against "Peepli Live" co-director Mahmood Farooqui for allegedly sexually assaulting an American researcher.


On June 29, the police had filed the chargesheet against Farooqui alleging that he had raped a 30-year-old research scholar from Colombia University at his Sukhdev Vihar house in New Delhi. The alleged rape occurred on March 28.


Police had also annexed medical reports of the woman and statements of more than a dozen witnesses including a common friend. Farooqui, arrested on June 20, has been in judicial custody since then.


The woman, in her complaint filed at the New Friends colony police station, alleged that Farooqui had raped her when she had gone to meet him to get his help for her research work.


She had claimed to have met Farooqui at Varanasi where she had gone to collect information about her research theme based on Baba Gorakhnath.