Pearl Puri, who was arrested for Minor Rape case by Waliv police station on Friday afternoon under POSCO, will be taken to Thane’s custody after his test for RT-PCR has proved negative.
On Saturday, the actor was placed under arrest for 14 days. If Anyone got arrested should get to COVID-19 test. Pearl V Puri is also being tested with RT-PCR and tomorrow he will be transferred to Thane prison, if it is negative. He’s at the police station at Waliv right now.”
DCP Patil responded to Ekta Kapoor’s claim that the victim’s mother openly stated that Pearl is innocent, saying, “The victim narrated the incident which occurred in 2019 on the sets of a TV show.”
She took the character’s name during the investigation, where the defendant took part. There is evidence, so Pearl was arrested.
The allegations are not false. The truth will come out in the court case.” We investigate further. Girls father filed a complained. The mother played on a television show and her mother was accompanied by the victim. On the basis of an incident the victim shared with us, we arrested Pearl.”
He said before, “The victim has recently identified the accused and the accused has been arrested after she has recorded her statement. We have taken the accused in custody for further investigation following his identification.”
The alleged incident occurred on the film stage in Vasai, where Pearl was shot in October 2019, according to Sanjaykumar Patil, DCP, Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) commissionerate.
The victim and her mother, who is also a television actor, were on the screen. After the child complained of abdominal pain, the mom learned about the incident.
Her dad, who had been working with Puri, lodged a complaint at the police station in Versova. The case was transferred to the Waliv police and it was found after the investigation that Puri was involved.
On Friday, he was called and detained at the Waliv Police Station. The family had complained that Puri was supposed to have bothered and raped the girl about two years ago, according to Valiv Police Station, who brought the case.
The Indian Penal Code and the Sections 4, 8, 12, 19 and 21 of the Law Protected Children from Sexual Crimes (POCSO) Act, 2012 were booked in Section 376 AB (Punishment for Rape of Women Under 12 years of age).
