Mahmood Farooqui, co-director of 'Peepli Live', was arrested on Saturday by Delhi Police on charges of rape. Farooqui has been accused of raping a 35-year-old American national three months ago.
The police registered an FIR charging Farooqui with rape (section 376 IPC) at the New Friends' Colony police station in New Delhi on 19 June. Farooqui was arrested from his home on Saturday night.
"The accused Mahmood Farooqui has been arrested and was presented before Saket court. The court has sent him into judicial custody till 6 July," an official was quoted as saying by the IANS.
Farooqui is married to director and screenwriter Anusha Rizvi, who directed the 2010 satirical comedy Peepli Live.
Farooqui and his wife have said that the accusations were false and that the complaint was "manipulated, false and belated."
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