Court holds 'Peepli live' co-director Farooqui guilty of raping US woman

Court holds 'Peepli live' co-director Farooqui guilty of raping US woman
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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.
Daily Pioneer
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