Mumbai

The Hrithik Roshan-Kangana Ranaut spat got murkier with the actress approaching the Commissioner of Police seeking the actor’s arrest for allegedly circulating her personal photographs and e-mails to the media and “wilfully outraging” her modesty.

Kangana’s advocate Rizwan Siddiqui sent a letter to the Commissioner of Police on April 6 requesting him to look into the matter and take appropriate action.

“My client Kangana Ranaut has been given to understand that her absolutely private and confidential e-mails as well as photographs which were collected by Hrithik Roshan during his association with her are being malafidely and mischievously misused by Hrithik Roshan with criminal intentions of damaging my client’s reputation and to wilfully impute in-chastity to her,” the letter signed by Siddiqui to the Police Commissioner (Dattatray Padsalgikar) read.

Kangana said that Hrithik had committed “cognizable offences” under sections 149 and 150 of CrPC and it was the duty of the police to arrest him under Section 151 of CrPC (arrest to prevent the commission of cognizable offences).

“Please do note that Hrithik Roshan has even criminally threatened my client of these actions in his notice to my client. However, as his notice received a befitting reply from me and he was not in a position to reply to the same he is now indulging in these criminal acts to put fear in the mind of my client,” the letter said.

The letter further stated that while Kangana reserves her right to file FIR, she would request the police to immediately look into the matter and take appropriate action.

“We will wait for a few days and see how the matter shapes up. I don’t think we can wait for too long to initiate criminal action against him (Hrithik). Earlier, we did not think of it (criminal action) as he is a family man with two kids,” Siddiqui told PTI.

He added that till now they have been only replying and responding and not attacking.

Hrithik’s advocate Dipesh Mehta, however, denied the allegations and said his client has not indulged in any such activities as alleged by the 29-year-old actress and her lawyer.

Earlier this week, accusing Hrithik of resorting to deviations and media trial as a face-saving tactic, Kangana had asked the actor to withdraw his legal notice to her or face action.

Hrithik, 42, had in February sent a notice to Kangana asking her to hold a press conference and tender an apology for referring to him as ‘silly ex’. .

Kangana also rubbished reports that the police has demanded the actress to surrender her laptop.

“My client who has been shown as a victim in the FIR has never shown her dissent in recording her statement before the police.

“However, as per the provisions of law she wants to first verify the contents of the FIR and the statement made by Hrithik Roshan before the police, wherein he has also mentioned the name of her sister. The reasons of mentioning the name of her sister needs to be duly ascertained,” her lawyer said.

Blackmailing or threatening won’t work with me: Kangana on Hrithik spat

Actress Kangana Ranaut, who has accused Hrithik Roshan and his legal team of “slut-shaming” her by leaking her personal mails and photographs, has said “blackmailing” or “threatening” her won’t work as it doesn’t scare her.

“… blackmailing or threatening won t work with me.

Though my legal team is taking strict actions against blackmailing and threatening me, but as a girl it doesn t scare me. You won t get a sorry by threatening me or circulating my love poems, letters or images,” said Kangana, who has also written to Commissioner of Police seeking the arrest of the actor for releasing her letters and photographs to the media.

“I am not ashamed of anything, not my past, not my affairs, not my body and most definitely not my desire. So slut-shaming won t work either. If they want an apology then they have to come to the point, beating about the bush won t help, me and my team are eager to help as hurting sentiments isn t our intention,” she said.

The legal and public fight has been going on for more than a month between the two former co-stars but no one seems to be in a mood to relent.

“In a legal matter, only on record statements can be addressed not gossip. So here s my final word: If the other party who sued me for defamation and asked for a public apology can prove defamation, I promise to apologise publicly.

I request the other party to respond to the legal matter which they have started and not turn this defamation suit into a media trial and judgment,” Kangana told Miss Malini entertainment and fashion web portal.

The 29-year-old actress said that if Hrithik is “sincerely seeking an apology”, then he and his team must help her understand “their perspective.”

Initially, the cold war between the two started in the media but Hrithik, who initially took to Twitter to deny an affair with anyone, decided to opt for legal recourse.

In February, he sent a legal notice to Kangana asking her to publicly apologise for referring to him as “silly ex” in one of her interviews. He also accused her of wrongly claiming to have had a relationship with him, saying their relationship was strictly professional.

The actor also filed a cyber complaint, claiming someone was impersonating him and talking to his fans and colleagues on his behalf.

He later claimed that Kangana was interacting with this impersonator and when she met him at a party and told him about this, he gave her his real email id but she bombarded him with messages and photographs.

Kangana, on her part, slapped a counter legal notice on the actor saying she was not ashamed of her relationship and she had not named him in her interview hence there was no case of defamation.

The actress said it was a poor ruse by actor to cover his relationship.

PTI