Court refuses to exonerate Ajay Mafatlal, Gayatri Jhaveri, issues summons
The Girgaum Metropolitan Court has refused to exonerate Ajay Mafatlal and his sister Gayatri Jhaveri in a domestic violence and mental harassment case filed by socialite Sheetal Mafatlal. Sheetal had filed a compliant in August 2011 against her husband and in-laws including late matriarch Madhuri Mafatlal for harassing her continuously since 2003.
While other family members, including her husband Atulya, settled the case with her in 2012 in High Court, Ajay and Gayatri had refused to strike a compromise with Sheetal.
The court has issued summons against them for June 30.
Apart from the alleged proximity of a few witnesses with the complainant, the investigating officer had said in his report that the allegations against Ajay Mafatlal about burning Sheetal with acigarette seemed wrong as one Nasib Hajjar had accepted that he had involuntarily hurt Sheetal with his cigarette on his birthday party.
The court, however, accepted the contentions raised in Sheetal’s protest petition, which said that the investigating officer could not have reached to a conclusion on his own and that all these issues should be decided in a trial.
While other family members, including her husband Atulya, settled the case with her in 2012 in High Court, Ajay and Gayatri had refused to strike a compromise with Sheetal.
The court has issued summons against them for June 30.
Rejecting the Girgaum police’s C–summary report (categorising the case as neither true nor false) last week, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate UK Aher observed that the investigating officer could not have rejected evidences put forth by certain witnesses saying they were close to the complainant.
Apart from the alleged proximity of a few witnesses with the complainant, the investigating officer had said in his report that the allegations against Ajay Mafatlal about burning Sheetal with acigarette seemed wrong as one Nasib Hajjar had accepted that he had involuntarily hurt Sheetal with his cigarette on his birthday party.
The court, however, accepted the contentions raised in Sheetal’s protest petition, which said that the investigating officer could not have reached to a conclusion on his own and that all these issues should be decided in a trial.
