Alok Nath gets bail in Vinta rape case Mumbai Court takes Alok Nath side

Alok Nath falsely held in Vinta rape case

Alok Nath was in news last year and script writer Vinta Nanda accused him of raping her in her house in 1998 after spiking her drink.

The 62-year-old actor was booked in November under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code.

The session’s court of Mumbai observed this fact while it granted a pre-arrest bail to the Bollywood actor last week. Not only this as Additional Sessions Court Judge S S Oza said the rape complaint filed by the screenwriter might be culmination of a "personal vendetta". The judge further noted that chances of Vinta raising the allegations might have been inspired by her "unrequited and un-reciprocated love" for Nath.

According to the reports, the court observed that Vinta and Nath's wife Ashu were college friends in the early 1980s in Chandigarh. "The duo was working in the production unit of a television serial (in Mumbai) when they met Alok Nath in mid-80s, and a fast friendship developed between the three of them. He (Nath) proposed to Ashu in 1987 and they got married," the court said in the order. The judge further revealed, "Perhaps the complainant's allegation against him (Nath) is inspired by the unrequited and unreciprocated love and affection that she (Nanda) had for him."

"It is to be noted that the complainant remembers the entire incident but does not remember the date and month of the incident. In view of all these facts, the possibility cannot be ruled out that the applicant has falsely been enrobed in the crime," said the judge.