Filmmaker and producer Ekta Kapoor has thrown her weight behind Naagin actor Pearl V Puri after the Mumbai Police arrested him for allegedly raping a minor. Ekta’s support for Pearl came after former Bigg Boss contestants Aly Goni and Karishma Tanna too took to Instagram with similar posts.
Ekta wrote, “Will I support a child molester…or a molester of any kind? But what I witnessed from last night to now, was the absolute low in human depravity. How can humanity go to this level? How can people who are upset with each other, drag a third person into their own fight?”
Ekta didn’t stop here as she asked, “How can a human being take on another human being and do this? After various calls with the child‘s/girl’s mother, who openly said that Pearl was not involved and it’s her husband trying to create stories to keep her child and prove that a working mother on a set cannot take care of her kid.”
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“If this is true then it is wrong on so many levels! Using an extremely important movement like ‘Me Too’ frivolously, to get your own agendas met with and mentally torturing a child and making an innocent person guilty. I have no right to decide, the courts will decide who is right & wrong,” she added,
The TV rpoducer said that her opinion was based on what the girl’s mother said to her last nightstating that Pearl was innocent.’
Ekta wrote, “It is very very sad if people are using various tactics to prove working mothers are unable to take care of their children, because there are predators on the set.
I have all the voice notes and messages between the child’s mother and me which clearly points to the false allegations being put on Pearl.
“The film industry is as safe or as unsafe as any other business. To give it a bad name to get your agenda sorted is the lowest form of low ever. If by chance, Pearl is proved innocent, I request people to look more deeply into how the important & much needed movements in today’s time, are being used unfairly reducing the gravitas of the situation. May justice prevail!”
Earlier, Aly Goni and Karishma Tanna had taken to Instagram to show their support for Pearl.