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Rani Mukherjee’s brother held on molestation charges

Ganesh N

Raja Mukherjee, brother of actress Rani Mukherjee was arrested by the Mumbai police on the charges of molestation.

Raja was arrested in the wee hours of Monday after a little known television actress and model lodged an FIR against him on Sunday.

According to the police, the woman alleged that Raja tried to outrage her modesty while they were driving together in his car.  The woman claimed that she had earlier tried to get in touch with Rani Mukherjee for narrating a script. However, even after repeated attempts she failed to get an appointment with the actress.

The woman claimed that Rani cited running a busy schedule owing to promotion of her new Hindi movie ‘Aiyyaa’ and was directed to meet her brother Raja. The woman met Raja on Sunday and alleged incident happened when he was driving her in his car in the Char Bungalow area of Andheri.

The Versova police said woman was narrating the script when Raja misbehaved with her and forcibly kissed her in the car. The woman reported the matter to her parents, following which she approached the police to lodge an FIR against Raja.

Additional Commisisoner of Police Vishwas Nangre-Patil said Raja has been booked under Section 354 of the IPC. The Versova police without losing any time arrested Raja in the wee hours of Monday. He was produced before the magistrate court and was released on a bail of `10,000.

Besides being Rani’s brother, Raja has been known to produce TV serials and was aiming to make it big by producing a film.

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