Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui is ruling the headlines these days but for all the wrong reasons. He was in the news after his estranged wife Aaliya filed for a divorce and even claimed to expose the actor, and now his niece has filed a sexual harassment case against her uncle at Jamia police station in Delhi.
In an interview with a leading daily, Nawazuddin’s niece has alleged that she was sexually and physically abused when she was a child.
She was quoted as saying, “As a child I didn’t understand thinking it was my uncle, but when I grew up I realized it was a different kind of touch. There was violence too.”
She said that when she informed this to her ‘bade papa’ Nawazuddin, he was not ready to believe her. He said, “chacha hai, aisa kabhi nahi kar sakte (he is your uncle, he can’t do this).”
Stating that she has filed a sexual harassment complaint at the Jamia Police Station in Delhi, She said, “I have filed a complaint about sexual harassment by my uncle when I was nine years old. My parents were divorced when I was two years old, so I had a step mother. I was tortured a lot. As a child I didn’t understand thinking it was my uncle, but when I grew up I realized it was a different kind of touch. There was violence too.”
Sharing how she expected Nawazuddin to understand her, she said, “Nawaz bade papa once asked me what I want to do in life, I told him all that was happening with me and that I felt mentally disturbed. But he said there is nothing like that. I thought that atleast bade papa (Nawazuddin) would understand, he lives in a different society and would have a different mentality. But he was like ‘chacha hai, aisa kabhi nahi kar sakte’.”
Nawazuddin’s brother Shamas Siddiqui, however, said that the allegations are baseless and that she is misguiding the ‘law’.
Shamas tweeted on Wednesday, “How can someone misguide the law and file the same case with different statement at @DelhiPolice, when there was no name of @Nawazuddin_S in the earlier statement given 2 years back to Court & the case is in #UttrakhandHighCourt as well.”
He added in another tweet, “It clearly indicates the motive and the person behind publicising this fake things in media. Truth will be uncovered soonest. @CPDelhi #NawazuddinSiddiqui.”
