The Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw and the city police were both served with a notice by the Bombay High Court on Thursday. The appeal, which was submitted by the social media influencer Sapna Gill, requested the court to cancel a FIR that was filed against her for allegedly attacking the athlete and demanding money from her.
The court is requesting their answer to the plea, in February of this year, a first information report (FIR) was filed after Gill and her friends got into a fight with Shaw and some of Shaw’s friends outside of a hotel in the suburbs of Mumbai over snapping of pictures. The fight was sparked by the fact that Gill and her friends were taking selfies. After some time had passed, Gill retaliated by filing a counter-complaint against the 23-year-old batter.
On Thursday, a two-chaired bench consisting of Justices S B Shukre and M M Sathaye issued a notice to the police and Shaw on Gill’s appeal for quashing the FIR against her and set the case for hearing in June. The notice concerned Gill’s request to have the FIR against her quashed.
Ali Kashif Khan, a lawyer for Gill, said in court that the police were conspiring with the Mumbai cricketer to fabricate a case against the social media influencer. Khan claimed that the police had filed the complaint.
Khan asked the court to order the police to get and save CCTV video from the hotel in the Andheri area where the altercation took place. The purpose of the film was to demonstrate what took on immediately before the altercation.
Gill included a request in the plea for the authorities to order them not to submit a chargesheet against her in connection with the matter.
