Pay 1 lakh to NGO for quashing case, HC tells sex pests

The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed two Nagpur residents to shell out Rs 1.5 lakh to an NGO, if they want a case registered against them by an Andheri woman for sending lewd messages, dropped.

The duo, one is the brother-in-law of the complainant, had approached the HC claiming that they had reached an out-of-court settlement. A division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Prakash Naik asked Vishal Mhatre and Dinesh Chavan to donate Rs 75,000 each to Naam Foundation, actor Nana Patekar's NGO. They will have to produce the donation receipts in court on Thursday, when the matter is taken up for hearing.The case goes back to January 2014, when Andheri resident Sheela Purohit, who works in a family-owned private consultancy firm, started receiving "vulgar" messages on her cellphone purportedly from a popular real estate website. The messages stopped for a while after a complaint was lodged. However, she started receiving phone calls from strangers, who claimed to have got her phone number from an adult website. Subsequently, her relatives started receiving messages making allegations of her being involved in an extramarital relationship.
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