Mumbai Police today recorded the statement of Bollywood actress Preity Zinta in connection with the molestation case she has registered against her former boyfriend and industrialist Ness Wadia. She had earlier filed the complaint against the industrialist, alleging he threatened and manhandled her during an IPL match on May 30. Preity Zinta arrived at the stadium at around 6.45pm in a Black Lexus car accompanied by her lawyer to record her statement. There was heavy police presence inside and around the stadium Today evening. Marine Drive Police recorded her statement, for more than one and half hours, with regard to the case while crime branch recorded her statement in connection with the threat calls received by Ness Wadia’s secretaries, allegedly from gangster Ravi Pujari. She recorded the statement at the BCCI office on the stadium premises till 8.20pm. Later, for about 20 minutes, she also helped the police to reconstruct the sequence of events inside the stadium that led to the alleged incident, for the purpose of the probe.
In her written complaint to police, Zinta has claimed that “I left for my seat, but he (Ness) came up to me at my seat and started screaming and abusing me in front of everyone”.“We want to know where she was sitting and who were these ‘everyone’ she is referring to,” the officer said. Police also asked her about the emails she had exchanged with Wadia before May 30 which had a sense of argument between the two.The recording of supplementary statement got delayed as Preity was in US and returned only on Sunday. According to police, Preity had mentioned three arguments with Wadia in her complaint at three different places inside the Wankhede Stadium on May 30. During one of them, the alleged molestation took place.Police sought answers from her to figure out these three locations, who may have spotted them while arguing, and what was the trigger for the spat. Police also asked her about the emails she had exchanged with Wadia before May 30 which had a sense of argument between the two.
