JE Entertainment Desk: The Bombay High Court quashed a 2006 case lodged against singer Mika Singh on Thursday for allegedly forcibly kissing Bollywood actor Rakhi Sawant. For the unversed, on June 11, 2006, the FIR was registered after Mika Singh allegedly forcibly kissed Rakhi during his birthday party at a restaurant in Mumbai.
After this, Mika Singh was charged under Sections 354 (molestation) and 323 (assault) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He also went missing for a few days after the incident and was later granted anticipatory bail in the case by a sessions court.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, a division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and S G Dige quashed the FIR and chargesheet filed in the case after taking into account an affidavit submitted by Rakhi Sawant giving her consent on the ground that she and Mr Singh had amicably resolved the issue.
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In April 2023, Mika Singh moved to the High Court to quash the FIR and subsequent chargesheet filed by the police.
The court perused the affidavit submitted by Rakhi Sawant which stated that she and Mr Singh had "amicably resolved all our differences and realised the entire dispute had arisen due to misunderstanding and misconception on our part". The HC quashed the FIR and the chargesheet.
(With PTI inputs)