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Filmmaker Shakeel Noorani arrested in Mumbai rape and blackmail case
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Police may test the alleged video evidence next, and the case could widen if others knew about the threats.

The case is serious on its own and likely to draw sustained attention because it combines alleged sexual violence, blackmail, and a film-industry defendant.

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The case is serious on its own and likely to draw sustained attention because it combines alleged sexual violence, blackmail, and a film-industry defendant.

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Malwani police arrested filmmaker and scriptwriter Shakeel Noorani in Mumbai in a rape and blackmail case filed by an aspiring actress. A court remanded him in police custody until August 12. The woman alleges he lured her to his Malwani home four years ago, spiked her drink, raped her, and later threatened to leak a video of the assault. Police invoked rape, criminal intimidation, poisoning, and miscarriage-related charges under the BNS.

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Filmmaker Shakeel Noorani arrested in Mumbai rape and blackmail case

Police say the aspiring actress accused him of drugging, assaulting, and threatening to leak a video of the attack.

Times of India·1h ago
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