American woman went home but returned to India to report attack to police

The incident took place at Farooqui's home in an upscale area of New Delhi

A Bollywood director has been convicted Saturday of raping an American research scholar last year.

Mahmood Farooqui, best known for co-directing the popular 2010 satire 'Peepli Live' on farmer suicides, was found guilty of the attack in March 2015 by a fast-track court hearing the case in New Delhi.

The victim, then aged 35, had travelled to India to seek Farooqui's assistance with her research when the attack took place at his home in an upscale area of the capital.

Mahmood Farooqui, best known for co-directing the popular 2010 satire 'Peepli Live' on farmer suicides, was found guilty of the attack by a fast-track court hearing the case in New Delhi

Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain will now decide on the sentence after hearing arguments on Tuesday.

Farooqui, who was taken into custody as soon as the judge read the verdict, denies the allegations.

The woman returned to the US shortly after the incident but came back to report the matter to police.

'Peepli Live', which explores the divide between urban and rural India, was produced by Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan.

Farooqui co-directed it with his wife Anusha Rizwi, who had earlier dismissed the complaint against her husband as 'manipulated and false'.

India introduced tough laws against sex offenders in the wake of the fatal gang-rape of a Delhi student in the capital in December 2012 that sparked mass street protests.