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Chinmayi, Sona back allegations against Nana Patekar after his death
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: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): ndtv.com (neutral report), timesnownews.com (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
