Karisma & Sunny Deol let off in 22-year-old Rajasthan ‘train’ case

JAIPUR: A local court on Friday discharged film actors Sunny Deol and Karisma Kapoor in a 22-year-old case relating to the stopping of a train by pulling chain during the shooting of film Bajrang in Rajasthan. The court of additional district judge (ADJ) Pawan Kumar also allowed a revision petition filed by Karisma and Sunny, now a Member of Parliament.
Judge Kumar held that there were no evidence against both the actors and the railway magistrate should not have framed charges against them, which were already set aside by the sessions court in 2010 itself.
Speaking to TOI, the actors’ counsel AK Jain said that all the charges against his clients were quashed by an ADJ court in 2010. Despite that the railway court had again framed charges against the actors on September 17 this year.
“In 2009, charges against both the actors were read out. We challenged the charges in the sessions court in April 2010. The session court set aside the charges on April 24 that year. But the same charges were framed again going against the law,” said Jain.
In March 1997, the assistant station master of Naraina railway station in Rajasthan had filed a complaint that some Bollywood people had stopped the train No.2413A by pulling the chain, which had led to a delay of 25 minutes. Police had registered an FIR against Tinu Verma, Karishma Kapoor, Sunny Deol and Satish Shah under the Railway Act. Verma and Shah are still fighting the case against them in the railway court.