May 24, 2008
Sonal Chauhan Slapped in Public
Sonal Chauhan, star of current box office hit, Jannat was slapped by her ‘good friend’ publicly at Santa Cruz airport, Mumbai after a war of words between them.
The boyfriend , Sahil Zaroo was picked up by the CISF personnel at the airport and handed over to the Santa Cruz airport police after the incident.
He was remanded to two days in police custody.
The incident happened when Sonal Chauhan along with her father had come to the Jet Airways counter at Santa Cruz domestic airport to collect a boarding pass for a Hyderabad bound flight. Sahil Zaroo was also present there at the same time and the two started talking, which ultimately turned in to an argument. Sahil then grabbed her mobile phone and threw it to the ground and then slapped Sonal before trying to run away.
However the CISF guards caught up with him and handed him to the Airport police. Sahil Zaroo was arrested under Sections 323 (causing hurt), 354 (outraging modesty of a woman), 448 (tress-pass), 509 (insulting modesty of a woman) and 427 (causing damage) of the Indian Penal Code
Both Sonal Chauhan and Sahil Zaroo were taken to the airport police station. Surprisingly, Chauhan registered a complaint in the name of Sonal Raghuraj Singh, 21. In her complaint, she said that she was a student.
While recording the statement, Sonal Chauhan told the police that she came to know Sahil Zaroo while looking for a house in Mumbai after she shifted base from Delhi. The two had been friends in Delhi. But Sonal Chauhan began avoiding him when he started sending her lewd SMSes and making calls.
Sahil Zaroo is also part of another high profile case. Zaroo, whose family owns a shawl business, is alleged to have sold cocaine to late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan’s son Rahul and his secretary Bivek Moitra in Delhi in 2006. Moitra died due to drug overdose while Rahul had to be hospitalized
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