HYDERABAD: Controversy seems to have made it a habit to haunt former Congress chief ministers of Maharashtra.
A local court in Hyderabad has directed the Saifabad police to register a cheating case against leading actress Genelia d’Souza, daughter-in-law of Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.
Genelia married Deshmukh’s son and fellow actor Riteish Deshmukh on February 3. Vilasrao Deshmukh was recently indicted by the Bombay High Court for misusing his office when he was Maharashtra chief minister to grant 21 acres of land to film director Subhash Ghai. The court had said that the deal which allowed Mr Ghai to set up a film institute was “illegal, arbitrary and without authority of law.” Mr Ghai has also been told to return the land that houses his Whistling Woods film school in Film City, Goregaon, to the government.
Genelia is the brand ambassador of Hyderabad-based Anjani Puthra Infrastructure Private Limited (APIPL).
A customer has filed a police complaint against her and the directors of the company for allegedly failing to hand over a plot-cum-duplex house as promised to a customer. Chata Tirupathaiah claims he paid `48 lakh in cash against the actual price of `54 lakh for purchasing the property at Kalwakol village in Maheshwaram mandal but APIPL allegedly failed to give him possession.
In his petition, apart from Genelia, Tirupathaiah has made APIPL, its managing director Sujith Reddy, directors Sudarshan Kumar Reddy and C Venkata Manohar Reddy as respondents. The police has been directed to register cases under Sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 120-B (conspiracy) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC, and to submit a report by March 27.