30 July,2016 04:44 PM IST | | IANS
A court here on Saturday held Mahmood Farooqui, who is best known as co-director of the 2010 Hindi film Peepli Live, guilty of raping an American woman
New Delhi: A court here on Saturday held Mahmood Farooqui, who is best known as co-director of the 2010 Hindi film "Peepli Live", guilty of raping an American woman.
Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain convicted Farooqui under rape charges and fixed August 2 for hearing arguments on quantum of sentence.
Delhi Police have accused Farooqui of raping a 35-year-old American woman from Columbia University who was in India for research on her doctoral thesis.
Farooqui has denied the allegations, saying he was falsely implicated.
