Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh, who recently got embroiled in controversy after posing nude for the New York-based Paper magazine, has told Mumbai Police in a statement that someone tampered with and morphed one of his images.
The actor’s statement was recorded by the Mumbai police on August 29. The complaint against the actor was registered by a woman and subsequently, by Lalit Tekchandani, an office-bearer of an NGO after the nude photoshoot of the actor went viral.
Amidst the nude pictures of the actor that went viral, a particular photo of the Bollywood actor allegedly showing private parts also emerged on social media. Ranveer Singh reportedly told Mumbai police in his statement on August 29, that this particular photo was morphed. He further claimed that the photo was not shot the way it is being shown.
It may be recalled that a Mumbai Police team had visited actor Ranveer Singh’s house on Friday, 12th August 2022, to serve him with a summon to appear at the police station for questioning. However, since the actor was out of the city, Mumbai Police had said that they would deliver him the summon on August 16. He was initially summoned on August 22, but finally, his statement was recorded on August 29.
The complaint against the actor was registered by Lalit Tekchandani, an office-bearer of a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) situated in the east Mumbai suburb of Chembur, and a woman lawyer at the Chembur police station after the nude photoshoot of the actor went viral.
Interestingly, when the photos went viral, the actor was quoted as saying that he can get naked before thousands of people and he is not ashamed of nudity.
Subsequently, multiple cases were registered against him with many slamming the actor for posing naked for a magazine. Ranveer Singh was charged under sections 509, 292, and 294 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), as well as Section 67 A of the Information Technology Act.
Speaking about the case, a senior officer had said then, “We will be recording his statement in connection with the FIR registered by the Chembur police station as a part of our probe in the case.” The complainant, Lalit Tekchandani, stated in his complaint that on July 24, a friend forwarded him the photographs Ranveer Singh had uploaded on Instagram and Twitter. He claimed that when he zoomed in on one of the photos, he saw the actor’s private parts were visible. The photo quickly went viral.