- Monday, March 10, 2025
By: ANI
The Supreme Court of India on Monday granted relief to actor Shah Rukh Khan as it upheld Gujarat High Court which quashed the case against him related to the 2017 stampede in Vadodara railway station in the state.
A bench of Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice CT Ravikumar rejected the plea filed by a complainant against Khan. The complainant had challenged a Gujarat high court’s order. The apex court refused to interfere with the order passed by the Gujarat court quashing the complaint filed by the complainant against the actor.
On April 27, 2022, the Gujarat high court ordered quashing the criminal case against Khan for allegedly causing a stampede at Vadodara railway station while promoting his film ‘Raees’ in 2017.
The actor, along with his production team, was travelling from Mumbai to Delhi to promote the film.
The complainant, Jitendra Madhubhai Solanki, had filed a private complaint against Khan before the judicial magistrate, first class, Vadodara, alleging Khan’s presence at the railway station coupled with him throwing T-shirts and smiley balls at the crowd that assembled at the station led to the alleged stampede.
On an application preferred by Khan seeking a quashing of the said complaint, the high court had to vide order dated April 27, 2022, quashed the complaint filed against the actor.
The petitioner was represented by senior advocate Vijay Kumar while Khan was represented by senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, briefed by a team from Karanjawala and company advocates led by Ruby Singh Ahuja and Sandeep Kapur, senior partners.
Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez on Monday arrived at the Patiala House court in New Delhi that had summoned her in connection with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) case related to Rs 200-crore money-laundering case involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekar and others.
Her lawyers moved a bail plea in the case and additional sessions Judge Shailender Malik sought a response from the ED on the bail plea, till which her regular bail was pending before the court.
At the request of Jacqueline’s lawyer, the court granted interim bail to Jacqueline on a bail bond of Rs 50,000.
The next date of hearing is October 22 this year.
On Wednesday (21), the court issued a summons to the actor to appear before it physically on Monday.
On August 17, a supplementary chargesheet filed by the ED in the extortion case against conman Sukesh Chandrashekar in a Delhi court mentioned the name of Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez as an accused.
