Prithvi Shaw’s troubles from the recent selfie controversy are not ending anytime soon as the social media influencer Sapna Gill against whom his friend had registered a complaint with Oshiwara police of extortion and harassment, has now filed a case against Shaw accusing him of outraging her modesty.
On Monday, the social media fame filed a complaint with Mumbai Airport Police Station against the 23-year-old cricketer and his friend, Ashish Yadav, whose car's windshield was damaged in a scuffle between them and her during the selfie controversy.
Sapna Gill and the other accused in the case were granted bail by a Mumbai court and she alleged that it was the Indian cricketer and his friends who provoked them first. The row happened after Shaw allegedly refused selfies while he was dining at a hotel in Mumbai.
Gill’s complaint has been registered under sections 34 (criminal act with common intention), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 146 (rioting), 148 (rioting with armed weapons), 149 (unlawful assembly offence committed in prosecution), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons), 351 (use of criminal force), 354 (outrage of modesty) and 509 (advantage of proximity, gesture to outrage modesty) of the Indian Penal code.
Gill stated that she had gone to the club on February 15 when they had seen the cricketer in an allegedly inebriated condition. She further stated that her friend named Shobhit Thakur approached Shaw for a selfie.
Shaw allegedly met Thakur with "instant hostility" and he even "forcefully took her friend's phone and damaged it by throwing it violently on the floor”, she has alleged.
Sapna Gill also said that she didn’t know who Shaw was as she was not a fan of cricket, but intervened when Shaw and his friends were misbehaving with her friends and apparently begged them not to assault her friend. She also said that Shaw touched her inappropriately and pushed her as well.
Sapna Gill also claimed that she told the cricketer and his friends that she would register a complaint with the police when Shaw and others "literally begged" her and requested her not to initiate a complaint.
Speaking about Shaw’s extortion case against her, Sapna Gill said: "They are saying that I have asked for Rs 50,000. What is 50,000 these days? I can make two reels and earn that much in a day. At least, the allegation should have been of a certain level."
Mumbai Airport Police Station is yet to convert Sapna Gill's complaint into an FIR.
(India Today inputs)
