Mumbai: Preity Zinta arrived at a sessions court in Mumbai for hearing of a defamation case that she had filed against a tabloid, alleging that an article published in it showed her ‘in a very poor and sexual light.’
The article contained an excerpt of a purported conversation between actors Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai recorded by police in 2001, in which the former had spoken about Zinta.
Zinta, clad in a beige Salwar Kameez, told additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate J B Panke that she was told about the article by her mother and manager while she was abroad.
Despite sending a legal notice to the tabloid demanding an unconditional apology and compensation, she had not received either, she said.
The next hearing of the case is scheduled for March 22.
Preity had alleged in the court that the tabloid was purely doing this to increase its circulation and that she was humiliated by it. Zinta slapped a defamation suit on the tabloid for publishing the article on July 15, 2005 in which she had been written about in a derogatory manner.
Tapes of the conversation were subsequently declared to be fake by the Chandigarh Forensic Science Laboratory.
As Zinta left the court, many of her fans blocked the road alongside it and cheered her as she got into her vehicle.
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