Nana Patekar has been given a clean chit by the Oshiwara police in Mumbai, due to lack of evidence to support Tanushree Dutta's allegations of sexual harassment. Tanushree had claimed that Nana touched her inappropriately while shooting for a special song in Rakesh Sarang's Horn Ok Pleassss.

However, The Indian Express quotes two eye-witnesses as telling the police that the two were several feet apart. Their statements played a crucial role in the police filing a B-summary report and concluding that Tanushree's complaint seemed "malicious and fake".

An actress, who was an assistant to choreographer Ganesh Acharya at the time of the incident on March 26, 2008, said in her statement to the police that Nana was being taught the steps. She said that Nana told Ganesh that he was not good at dancing, because of which he was made to do extensive rehearsals before the shoot. Tanushree had been practicing her portions since the beginning of the month and was at Filmistan Studios for the past three days for the same.

On the day of the shoot, at 2.30pm, Tanushree, Nana and 300-400 back-up dancers were standing in their positions. "Nana Pateker was standing behind Tanushree Dutta. There was a gap of several feet between them. We were standing next to the cameraman at the foot of the stage when the music started to play. 10-15 seconds later, Tansuhree Dutta suddenly walked away in anger. No one could understand what had happened," the assistant choreographer said.

According to a junior choreographer, Tanushree and Nana were not dancing in close proximity of each other. "They were to enact the same dance movements but they weren't dancing close to each other," she said in her statement to the police.

Tanushree's lawyer Nitin Satpute dismissed the statements of the two eye-witnesses and said, "The statements in the closure report are useless as the police has not spoken to witnesses we had asked them to."

The B-summary report filed by the police states that producer Samee Siddiqui told a reporter in a surreptitiously recorded interview that he desperately wanted Tanushree to return to the sets as he would incur a loss of Rs 1.5 crore otherwise. He also said that Tanushree refused to budge and insisted that Nana maintain his distance from her.

However, the producer told the police in his statement that he was recorded without his knowledge and did not mean to offend Tanushree. The police, in its B-summary report, said that as he was unaware that he was being recorded, his comments could not be considered his honest and natural opinions and there was no other evidence to prosecute him.

In October last year, Tanushree filed an FIR against Nana at the Oshiwara police station in Mumbai. Horn Ok Pleassss director Rakesh Sarang, choreographer Ganesh Acharya, producer Samee Siddiqui were also named in the case.

The police interrogated 19 witnesses who were present on the sets that day, but none of them corroborated Tanushree's claims.

Soon after Nana was given a clean chit, Tanushree slammed the system as corrupt. "A corrupt police force and legal system giving a clean chit to an even more corrupt person Nana who has been accused even in the past of bullying, intimidation and harassment by several women in the film Industry.Our witnesses have been silenced by intimidation and fake witnesses have been put forth to weaken the case. What was the rush to file a B-summary report when all of my witnesses have not even recorded their statements yet?" she said in a statement.

In another statement, Tanushree urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene. "Modi ji...what happened to a corruption free India? A daughter of the country gets harassed by a serial offender, attacked by a mob in public, denied justice over and over again and her name is maligned, she is threatened, pressurised, her career is destroyed and literally driven out of the country to live a life of anonymity and your police force say her complaint is false and malicious!!! Yehi hai apka Ram Rajya?? Being born in a devout Hindu family, maine toh suna tha ki Ram naam satya hai toh phir kyun is desh mein asatya aur adharm ki bar bar vijay hoti rahi hai? Jawab dijiye mujhe," she said.

Tanushree's lawyer Nitin Satpute told India Today Television that they would file a writ petition and challenge the report in the Bombay High Court. "The police have not investigated properly, so we are opposing summary reports and we are also going to file a writ petition before Bombay High Court. We will also demand that the investigation be transferred to another agency or CID, Crime Branch," he said.

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