An FIR has been filed against actor Nana Patekar in relation to the allegations of sexual harassment made against him by Tanushree Dutta. The actress had earlier given a written complaint about the incident that took place 10 years ago. FIR has been filed under sections 354 (assault or criminal force on woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of IPC.

FIR also mentions names of choreographer Ganesh Acharya, producer Samee Siddiqui and director Rakesh Sarang. All of them were associated with the film Horn OK Pleassss in which Tanushree Dutta was starring with Nana Patekar.

Tanushree had mentioned all the names in her written complaints submitted earlier.

On Wednesday, Tanushree Dutta reached Oshiwara police station with her lawyer Nitin Satpute. The FIR was filed after questioning which went on for five hours.

She arrived at the police station at 7.10 pm. Earlier, Mumbai Police had refused to send a team to her residence to take her statement. Her lawyer Nitin Satpute requested the police to record her statement in English as Tanushree did not know Marathi. However, her statement was initially taken in Marathi and only when she refused to sign it, the police proceeded to record her statement in English. The actress then signed it.

According to Satpute, Tanushree recounted the entire incident that took place in 2008. She also mentioned film producer Samee Siddiqui's recent outrageous statement. In an interview, Siddiqui said that Tanushree threw tantrums on set probably because she was having her periods. She said that the entire incident including the recent comments amounted to outraging modesty of a woman.

There was heavy police deployment outside the police station and gates were closed to keep the media and onlookers at bay.

Her statement read, "In 2008, I was approached by director Rakesh Sarang and producer Samee Siddique for doing item song for movie Horn OK Pleassss. In March, there was shooting for this song at Filmistan studio in Goregaon. The choreographer for the song was Ganesh Acharya. The director and producer told me that Nana Patekar is featured in the film but for the song I have to perform solo. They also informed that Nana Patekar will have one line but that they will shoot later and not part of my choreography.

"Before the shoot I had clearly mentioned that I will not perform any lewd vulgar or uncomfortable steps. The song was to shoot for four days. Nana Patekar did not have any role but he continued to be on set for all the four days. On the 4th day, when around 100 people were present Nana Patekar touched me on pretext of teaching me the song steps. He touched me extremely indecently. He was not even the choreographer. All other kept watching as mute spectators. He asked other artists and choreographer to step aside. This was very embarrassing and outraged my modesty."

She added, "I immediately complaint this to choreographer, producer and director. I expected everything will be fine. Later I was called upon the set only to inform that new steps are added and I have to do intimate steps with Nana Patekar. The dance sequence was added which was informed to me by Ganesh Acharya.

"Nana Patekar, Ganesh Acharya, Samee Siddique and Rakesh Sarang did joint meeting on set and decided to include the dance sequence intimate one. They all kept forcing me and pressurised me to do those intimate steps with Nana Patekar, as I kept refusing they said they will boycott me and defame me in front of media.

"I walked out from the set and went into my vanity van. I could not tolerate more as each and everyone was supporting Nana Patekar as he forced me to do intimate steps with him.

"I called my father. Nana Patekar left the set and the shoot was over. As I step out of the vanity van, I saw a huge mob and people were raising slogans to MNS party. The party workers got violent and started to attack my car, in support of Nana Patekar.

"I went to Goregaon police station to file complaint but nothing was taken as part of my FIR. I recently saw one interview on news channel where Samee Siddique said I left because I was on periods. This statement has further outraged my modesty and has embarrassed me in public," read her statement.

Tanushree Dutta came out of the police station with a smile on her face. She did not speak to the media.

"Yes she is very happy. She wanted this for the last 10 years and we really hope that all the accused will be arrested for questioning and the police will collect all evidence to prove the case," said Nitin Satpute, Tanusheree's lawyer.

(With inputs from Saurabh Vaktania)

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