No stay on Bollywood film on Anara Gupta

A lower court here today pulled up Jammu and Kashmir police for failure to speed up probe into the sensational Anara Gupta porno-CD case and rejected its application for stay on release of a forthcoming film on the former beauty queen's life.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjay Dhar, after hearing Advocate M A Bhat appearing for the special investigation team, rejected the police's application for stay of the film on Anara saying the probe in the matter has already been delayed and it needs to be speeded up.

The court observed that merely because one of the suspects in the case is making a film on her life with the assistance of respondent K K Yadav and Ashok Pandit does not mean that whatever story about the life of Anara Gupta has been portrayed in the film is gospel truth.

The investigating agency is not bound to accept the correctness of the version about the life of Anara Gupta given in the film, Dhar observed.

The investigating agency has to go by the facts and material collected during investigation of the case. Even if Anara Gupta is portrayed as an innocent person and an angel in the film, this is not going affect proceedings before the investigating agency and the court because it is only a fiction and not truth, the court said.

If during investigation of the case, the investigating agency finds material showing her complicity in the case, the film will have no effect on the result of the investigation, Dhar said.

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