Tanushree Dutta: The witness statements... I saw the list of witnesses. Ninety percent of those witnesses weren’t even present on the set. They have taken statements from Daisy Shah who is Ganesh Acharya’s long term assistant and close confidante. Why is her testament valid? Daisy Shah was on the set that day and she claimed to not remember anything.



She didn’t say that it didn’t happen. She said that she didn’t remember. She is a long- term confidante of Ganesh Acharya, I have seen her sitting on his lap. And this was on video also. Every shoot that Daisy and Ganesh did together at some point of time people would see her sitting on his lap. So that is their close proximity.



Why will she corroborate my story because his name is also in the FIR? He is also one of the accused. They took testimony from Ratan Jain and two other people. They are producer association members. How can they be witnesses? Because in 2008, when I had filed a complaint with CINTAA, they called me for a meeting. The producers association members and CINTAA members were sitting there, and instead of helping me, they were charging me, threatening me to pay up money because that time the producers were scared that I might sue them. Why are they getting these witnesses who themselves were party to covering up this crime? The complaint I had filed with the police, they didn’t even take an FIR at that time.



That proves that the police has been corrupt since day one. I went through the list and I was like none of them were on set. Except Daisy I couldn’t recognise anyone else who was there. Janice’s (Janice Sequeira, journalist) statement corroborated my story, so that should be enough. Shiny Shetty (assistant director, Horn Ok Pleassss) too. With Shiny, they only recorded half the statement and didn’t bother to record her complete statement. She was corroborating my story and they just recorded half the statement and said we have to go somewhere. Then Shiny had to go home.



We kept requesting the police to record the other half and they didn’t do it. Obviously, half a statement can’t go as one, so they cut off Shiny’s statement. But it didn’t get completed because of them. Janice has given her full statement. In a sexual harassment case two witnesses are more than enough.



The third witness, Wasim has been discouraged and threatened from going to the police station. We have been chasing Wasim for months. He says he will come and he doesn’t show up. He is scared out of his wits. In a conversation with my lawyers he even admitted to getting regular phone calls from Nana and his team. And he says that he is not afraid and he’ll still come, but he didn’t. For three or four months he was away in his home town because someone was unwell. Clearly, he is getting threatened. Obviously, he isn’t able to take all this stress. We had other people also who we wanted to bring in as witnesses, who were present on set and would have been able to give a clearer picture, but they had gotten calls even before we had filed an FIR and asked to shut up.



But we don’t need to have 15-16 witnesses. We need only two. In a harassment case how many witnesses do you need? Then what about rape cases which never have witnesses?