Co-director of the satirical comedy film Peepli (Live), Mahmood Farooqui, accused for raping a 35 year old American woman in 2015, has been convicted by Saket court in Delhi on Saturday. The writer and director was arrested by Delhi Police last year accused of rape charges. The woman, a research scholar of Indian origin, along with a senior official of the US Embassy, had filed an FIR with the Delhi Police, last year also. Her statement under Section 164 CrPC. A case under IPC’s Section 376 was registered against Farooqi and was sent to a 6-day judicial custody. Quantum of sentence will be announced on August 2. According to a The Indian Express report, a senior officer had said that the woman in her complaint had said that her first meet with Farooqui was when she visited India in 2014.
According to reports, the woman on June 19 had filed a complaint in New Friends Colony police station. Mahmood an alumnus of Doon School also has degrees from Delhi’s St Stephen’s College, and Oxford, Cambridge. Mahmood has written books like ‘Besieged: voices from Delhi 1857’, is also a historian. He had helped William Dalrymple a noted writer in the research of his novel ‘The Last Mughal’.
