On Thursday, the Bombay High Court served notice on India cricketer Prithvi Shaw and the local police, requesting a response to a plea Sapna Gill filed to have a FIR filed against her for allegedly attacking the sportsman and demanding money be quashed.
After an altercation between Gill and her friends and Shaw and a few of his friends outside a hotel in a Mumbai suburb over snapping pictures, the first information report (FIR) was filed in February of this year.
Then, Gill filed a counter-complaint against the batsman, age 23.
In response to Gill’s request to have the FIR against her dismissed, a division bench of Justices S B Shukre and M M Sathaye on Thursday sent notice to the police and Shaw and scheduled a hearing for June.
The police were working hand in hand with the Mumbai cricketer, according to Gill’s attorney Ali Kashif Khan, who also claimed that a false complaint had been filed against the social media star.
Khan asked a judge to order the police to get and preserve CCTV video from inside the hotel in suburban Andheri to demonstrate precisely what happened before the altercation.
In her appeal, Gill also asked the court to instruct the police not to prosecute her in the matter.
