Filmmaker Hansal Mehta has slammed the fact that actress Rhea Chakraborty is being subjected to what he terms are media witch-hunts, ever since an FIR was lodged against her by KK Singh, father of her boyfriend and late actor Sushant Singh Rajput. "God forbid if the girl being accused and being subjected to a trial by media does harm to herself," Mehta tweeted wrote on Twitter.

Continuing in the same tweet, he named a news anchor, and wondered whether the news anchor and "all the politicians and all those invited on these media witch-hunts be held accountable" if Rhea harmed herself. "Let her guilt/innocence be proved in a court of law for heaven's sake," he concluded.