A woman village-head in Uttar Pradesh in India has sought a local court’s intervention to get a unlawful case registered against Amitabh Bachchan in Barabanki district, where the actor has bought land to build a women’s college. Complainant Raj Kumari is the ‘gram pradhan’ (village head) of Daulatpur village, where the actor had acquired five bighas of land to build a college in the name of his star daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai.
In an application moved before the court of chief judicial magistrate, Barabanki, Raj Kumari has accused Bachchan of “playing fraud” on the people of the village by not keeping his word of building a women’s college. She has further charged Bachchan of threatening her with dire consequences when she approached him to honour his commitment to the local population.The court has fixed May 31 for hearing the case.Earlier, Bachchan has faced charges of acquiring 2.5 bighas of agricultural land owned by the local ‘gram sabha’ allotted in his name through “fraudulent means”.
Later, he bought three bighas of private land. Together with her close friend, former Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, traveled all the way to the village of Daulatpur in 2006 with his wife Jaya, son Abhishek and daughter in law Aishwarya. And amid much fanfare, said the school would be the name of Aishwarya.
However, there was no activity at the place in all these years, after which the village head moved the court.
