Rape case: Researcher seeks court nod to clarify some aspects

A US researcher today moved a plea before a court here seeking its permission to be examined again on some aspects in connection with a case of alleged rape by "Peepli Live" co-director Mahmood Farooqui.
After hearing arguments on the application moved by the counsel for the 30-year-old woman, who is currently in the US, Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain reserved the order for November 5.
The application sought the court's permission to allow the woman to appear and give clarification on certain aspects of the case, the researcher's advocate Vrinda Grover said.
While fixing the date for order, the court also extended interim bail of Farooqui till November 5 on his lawyer's oral request.

The filmmaker was granted 15 days' interim bail by the court on October 15 after he moved an application contending that he needed to be with his ailing father who was suffering from bleeding haemorrhoids andhas been advised surgery.
The court had earlier recorded statements of the woman, her friends, a magistrate who had recorded the researcher's statement under section 164 CrPC, officials of the police and forensic department, who appeared as prosecution witnesses in the case.

On September 9, the court had started the trial in the case after framing charges of rape under section 376 (rape) of IPC against Farooqui, who has denied all charges against him.

The police had on June 19 lodged the FIR against Farooqui on the complaint of the woman after which the filmmaker was arrested.
On June 29, a charge sheet was filed against Farooqui alleging he had raped the 30-year-old research scholar from Colombia University at his Sukhdev Vihar house in south Delhi on March 28.