‘A Step Closer to Bail’: Karan Oberoi’s Family on Judicial Custody

Karan Oberoi was held on charges of raping and blackmailing a woman.

Karan Oberoi was arrested on charges of raping and blackmailing a woman.

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Family of actor Karan Oberoi, who has been accused of rape, said they were happy after the court ordered 14 days judicial custody for him since it will pave way for a bail application.

“If the complainant was raped, why would she have gone back to meet Karan again and again? We are happy with the way our lawyer presented our side,” Gurbani Oberoi, Karan’s sister, told The Times of India (TOI).

Karan, who was arrested on charges of raping and blackmailing a woman in suburban Oshiwara, was on Thursday, 9 May, remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a Mumbai court.

Actors Pooja Bedi and Sachin Shroff, singers Chaitanya Bhosle, Sudhanshu Pandey and Sherrin Verghese were also present to support Oberoi.

Oberoi, 40, who acted in some television serials and appeared in commercials, was arrested on Sunday after the woman, who was in a relationship with him since 2016, complained to the Oshiwara Police that he allegedly raped her on the pretext of marrying her.

The woman also alleged that he shot some objectionable videos of her and demanded money from her while threatening to release the clips, a police official earlier said.

Oberoi was on Thursday produced before the court of metropolitan magistrate Imran Marchiya in suburban Andheri which remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days.

His lawyer Dinesh Tiwari said the allegations levelled by the woman were "false" and that they will file a bail application before the court on Friday.

Oberoi was also a member of an Indipop musical group 'A Band of Boys'.