Case toh banta hai

About 11 years since Saif Ali Khan and his two friends — Shakeel Ladak and Bilal Amrohi — allegedly assaulted a South African businessman and his father-in-law in a south Mumbai hotel, the trial is set to begin on June 15. Reportedly, the additional chief metropolitan magistrate, Esplanade Court, recently read out charges against the actor and his friends. Moreover, summons were  issued to witness for the recording of evidence in the matter. In February 2012, Saif, actor-wife Kareena Kapoor Khan, her sister Karisma Kapoor, Malaika Arora, Amrita Arora and husband Shakeel Ladak, and Bilal Amrohi visited a speciality restaurant at the south Mumbai hotel. Apparently, when the SA businessman Iqbal Mir Sharma protested the din made by the actor and his friends, Saif allegedly threatened them and subsequently punched him in the nose, fracturing it. The NRI businessman had also accused the actor and his friends of hitting his father-in-law Raman Patel. On the other hand, Saif maintained that Sharma made provocative statements and used abusive language against the women accompanying him, which led to the ruckus. In a chargesheet filed by the police in December 2012, Saif and his two friends were charged under Indian Penal Code Sections 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) and 34 (common intention). 

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