City police books criminal case against Rajnikath's wife

The VI additional chief metropolitan magistrate (ACMM) has ordered to register a criminal case against Tamil superstar Rajnikanth's wife, Latha, on whom the city police have booked cases under sections 420 (cheating) and 463 (forgery).
Police said the cases has been booked following the orders of the court for allegedly ‘doctoring’ some documents relating to the defamation case that she had filed against some distributors of the superstar’s film, Kochadaiiyaan.The case has been registered at Ulsoorgate police station under Crime No. 217/2015, police said.
The case was referred to the city police after the magistrate found out that she had allegedly produced fake documents in the court to obtain an order restraining some distributors as well as media on whom she had served legal notices for publicly defaming her. She had filed to seek gag order on the media, after she publicly denied the allegations by some distributors in the media in March this year. The court found that she had allegedly ‘doctored’ and created forged documents by creating ‘fake’ letterhead under the Publishers and Broadcast Welfare Association of India after Ad Bureau, one of the parties against whom she filed seeking injunction to restrain them from publicly defaming her. The Ad Bureau had disputed the existence of Publishers and Broadcast Welfare Association of India.
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DCP (central) Sandeep Patil said that the city police will examine the letter written by Publishers and Broadcast Welfare Association of India is genuine or not. Besides this, he said the police will approach Press Council of India and Union Information and Broadcasting ministry to check on this matter.
Armed with the ‘forged’ document, Latha Rajnikanth had approached the court seeking a gag order on 76 publications which had published news on some financial transactions she had in December last year with Ad Bureau, one of the commissioned producers. The Ad Bureau, in November last year, of trial had alleged that she had committed fraud as she sold the rights of Kochadaiiyaan.
Soon after the publication, she served legal notices to all the publications, Ad Bureau and Abhirchand Nahar, in which she had disputed the allegations against her. She also had filed a case before the VI ACMM in the city and she had declared before the court that she had obtained a letter addressed to her by the Publishers and Broadcasters Welfare Association of India. “The court, on admission of the case and on the course of trial, found that these letters turned out to be fake as claimed by Ad Bureau.
She had earlier slapped legal notices against the media to restrain them from publishing any news related to the money dispute between her and some of the distributors. An injunction suit was filed before the Madras High Court after this was vacated. Patil said that the order from ACMM is in receipt of the city police and confirmed that FIR has been registered under sections 420 and 463.
The background: Ad Bureau, a company that had pumped money into the film production had claimed that that the company had pumped in funds in the project, Kochadaiiyaan. Ad Bureau representative Abirchand Nahar had claimed that the film’s production unit, Mediaone Global Entertainment Ltd, owed Ad Bureau Rs 6.84 crore with Latha signing guarantee.
The company had also alleged that Tamil Nadu rights of the film to someone else without informing his company.
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