MUMBAI: Actor Karan Oberoi ’s bail plea was on Tuesday deferred by a day after the woman who has accused him of rape sought to be heard. Oberoi’s counsel, Dinesh Tiwari, called the allegations in her FIR, filed earlier this month, “absurd” and said, “It was at best something consensual which was going nowhere.”Tiwari told the court that text messages between the actor and the woman, a 34-year-old astrologer, establishes that their relationship was consensual.The woman’s counsels, Ali Kaashif Khan and Sheetal Pandya, sought to intervene to oppose Oberoi’s plea. A heated argument ensued between the lawyers in the Dindoshi sessions court of Judge S U Baghele.Tiwari said, “She (the astrologer) is trying to extract vendetta by delaying the hearing to keep my client behind bars unnecessarily longer. This is a false allegation by the applicant because the relationship was not going anywhere.”He also argued that there are precedents setting judgments that bar such intervention by a first informant at this stage, when the public prosecutor is there to argue on behalf of the prosecution.But Khan persisted in seeking a hearing deferment, asking for time to be able to reply after getting a copy of the bail application.Judge Baghele looked at the prosecutor and said, “If the informant wants time, I will have to grant ad-interim bail” to Oberoi. Khan immediately said, “Just want one day.” He said the plea can be heard on Wednesday morning as the first matter. He sought a copy of the plea and Tiwari said he would hand it right away, “within half an hour”. The court posted the matter for hearing “first thing on Wednesday”.Meanwhile, the Oshiwara police’s reply opposing Oberoi’s plea was filed. The police objected to his bail on the grounds that it is a “serious” case and they fear he may “threaten … witnesses, including his domestic helps at home”. They expressed “strong suspicion” that if released, he may interfere with the probe, since statements of witnesses are yet to be recorded by the police.Senior inspector D P Sonawane’s objection to Oberoi’s bail plea in the police reply is also “because he has cheated the informant of Rs20 lakh, including cash and domestic goods, and while police have seized items worth Rs 1.77 lakh, the remaining is yet to be seized”. The police reply mentions that “between 2016, when they (the actor and the astrologer) met, till 2018, when they started arguing” he had time and again shown her “promise of marriage” and got her to get a big bed, gold rings, refrigerator, dining table and other household items.Tiwari also told the court that he intends to argue about how “women-related laws are being misused and It’s time that police need to be sensitised about this”.The fourth floor court room at the court complex in Goregaon (east) had Oberoi’s sister Bani present, along with several of his friends, including his boy band members Chintoo Bhosale, Siddharth Haldipur , Sherrin Verghese and their manager Varkey Patani .Tiwari also told the court that he intends to argue about how “women-related laws are being misused and It’s time that police need to be sensitised about this”.