Sooraj Pancholi recently got emotional at the trailer launch event of his upcoming film Satellite Shankar that is coming on 15 November this year. The actor opened up about Jiah Khan’s suicide case that started around six years ago.
The actor was romantically involved with the actress who committed suicide in 2013. Allegations were made against Pancholi and a court case has been going on since then. Discussing the court case, the actor said he was put behind bars for something he did not do.
“I have been struggling in life over the past seven years. I was put behind bars when I was 21 for something I haven’t done. I don’t want to hype this but I want to say that all these years, I have been very quite because I believed in our legal system. I still believe in court procedure but it has been very time-consuming and I don’t have the patience to wait for the judgement for another 14 or 20 years,” he said.
Sooraj Pancholi added: “If I am a complainant, I don’t have to go to court but the accused has to go to court at each and every hearing. I have been going for court hearings since I was 21. I will turn 29 in a month. In the history of India, mine is the only case where the accused has asked the court to continue the trial,” he claimed.
At the event, he also slammed Jiah Khan’s mother Rabiya Khan for not attending court hearings. “The complainant (Rabiya Khan) duty is to come to court if they want justice. But every time I have a trial, the complainants catch a flight and leave for London because they have a British passport and the authorities over here cannot do anything about it. It’s not fair. I want this trial to start because I want an answer whether I am guilty or not,” he said.
Sooraj Pancholi added, “Police has done the investigation twice. I have gone through CBI investigation at the age of 22. I sat with them through day and night. If they said there is nothing in this case, then why is the court not starting my trial? And why won’t the complainant be there at the trial? She (Rabiya Khan) has accused me, so now it’s her duty to prove I’m guilty.”
His co-actor in the film, Megha Akash, the film’s director Irfan Kamal and producers Murad Khetani and Ashwin Varde accompanied Sooraj Pancholi at the the trailer launch on Thursday in Mumbai.
Check out the trailer of Satellite Shankar here: