Shah Rukh Khan’s business partner and film producer Karim Morani has been booked in a rape case by the Hyderabad Police for allegedly raping a 25-year-old woman from Delhi. Reports say that the girl has registered a case against the celebrity Bollywood filmmaker at the Hayathnagar Police Station stating that Karim Morani raped her at different locations in Mumbai and at a film studio in Hyderabad last year. The police have filed a case under the IPC section 417 (cheating), section 376 (rape), section 342 (wrongful confinement), section 506 (criminal intimidation) and other relevant sections. Since the news broke out in the media like wildfire, Karim Morani’s spokesperson, in a damage control mode, stated that the complaint was “false and bogus”, filed with the intention of tarnishing the filmmaker’s image.
As he fights the rape allegations for now, Karim Morani’s past Bollywood involvement includes producing films like ‘Chennai Express’ and ‘Dilwale’.