# Chinmayi, Sona back allegations against Nana Patekar after his death 2026-10-12T05:16:53+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Singer Chinmayi Sripaada has backed Sona Mohapatra after she shared an assistant director's account alleging sexual misconduct by late actor Nana Patekar on film sets. The assistant director said the alleged behaviour was disguised as part of a scene and that a CINTAA member later corroborated the account. The post made clear the incidents were unrelated to the 2009 film Horn 'Ok' Pleassss, at the centre of Tanushree Dutta's 2018 allegations against Patekar. Patekar died of a heart attack in Goa on 8 October at age 75. An FIR over Dutta's allegations was closed in 2019 due to insufficient evidence, and the Mumbai Magistrate Court rejected criminal proceedings in 2025 on limitation grounds. In her post, Mohapatra wrote: 'Talent isn't innocence. Charity isn't character. Death isn't sainthood.' The singers' comments have brought the allegations back into public discussion. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both NDTV and Times Now cover the posthumous allegations against Nana Patekar as a social-media exchange between singers, with no discernible slant. Times Now includes the 2025 Mumbai Magistrate Court rejection of proceedings as a broader legal timeline, but both outlets lead with the same new fact: the assistant director's account shared by Sona Mohapatra and backed by Chinmayi Sripaada. Neither outlet questions or endorses the allegations, each reports the denial and the closed case as context. The coverage is uniform straight reporting of a revived online debate, not an investigative follow-up. The open question the sources leave is whether social-media accounts will lead to any formal legal action or remain a posthumous public discussion. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - ndtv.com (neutral report) Straight report of social-media exchange with no slant. - timesnownews.com (neutral report) Adds 2025 court timeline but no slant in framing. This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Chinmayi Sripaada, CINTAA, Nana Patekar, Sona Mohapatra, Tanushree Dutta Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/chinmayi-sona-back-allegations-against-nana-patekar-after-his-death/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/chinmayi-sona-back-allegations-against-nana-patekar-after-his-death/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/