Naagin actor Pearl V Puri, who was arrested on the June 4 for allegedly raping a minor, has been granted bail. The actor was arrested by the Waliv police and since this was a POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) case, his lawyer’s attempts to get bail were denied earlier. Puri was remanded to judicial custody and has been in jail for around a week. Post his hearing today, the actor was granted bail, confirms his lawyer to ETimes. According to the entertainment website, Puri will be out in 11 days. The alleged incident for which the actor has been arrested took place on the sets of his television show, Bepanah Pyaar, in 2019. Following the actor’s arrest, there was mass support for him from the Hindi television industry with Ekta Kapoor proclaiming his innocence and claiming to have spoken to the victim’s mother herself.
In her Instagram caption, Ekta Kapoor had written: "Will I support a child molester…or a molester of any kind? But what I witnessed from last night to now, was the absolute low in human depravity. How can humanity go to this level? How can people who are upset with each other, drag a third person into their own fight? How can a human being take on another human being and do this? After various calls with the child‘s/girl’s mother, who openly said that Pearl was not involved and it’s her husband trying to create stories to keep her child and prove that a working mother on a set cannot take care of her kid."
"If this is true then it is wrong on so many levels! Using an extremely important movement like ‘Me Too’ frivolously, to get your own agendas met with and mentally torturing a child and making an innocent person guilty. I have no right to decide, the courts will decide who is right & wrong. My opinion only comes from what the girl’s mother said to me last night & that is - Pearl is innocent …and it is very very sad if people are using various tactics to prove working mothers are unable to take care of their children, because there are predators on the set," she added.
Hina Khan, Karishma Tanna, Aly Goni and many others had also voiced their support for the actor.
from filmfares
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