Zohal Hamid settles with Luke, Mallya, RCB

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New Delhi, May 24: US national Zohal Hamid has reached a late-night settlement with Team RCB director Sidhartha Mallya and Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach and has agreed to drop charges against all of them.Zohal Hamid’s lawyer confirmed that settlement has been reached. 

 

"My client has come to an agreement with Pomersbach and an appropriate petition will be filed in court on Thursday for quashing of the FIR, Rajneesh Chopra", Zohals lawyer,  told Times of India. 

Chopra also said Zohal would not proceed with a defamation case against Mallya after he posted a tweet describing his earlier,controversial tweets about her as unfortunate. 

"I’ve always been a very loyal person who stands up for friends.

The tweets/comments made were unfortunate, being the product of stressful circumstances & I realise people drew meaning and connotations other than and beyond what was intended against Zohal", Siddhartha Mallya tweeted at 11:22 pm.

Zohal’s lawyer Rajneesh Chopra said; "My client is satisfied with the apology. It complies with the demands of the legal notice. All charges have been dropped against Mallya".

At 11:24 pm, Mallya tweeted:  ""Oh and btw, I know ppl can be cynical, so just so u know, the settlement wasn’t financial in any way".

At 11:37, he again tweeted, "So glad that all charges have been dropped and Luke can return down under A FREE MAN!"

The TOI report said, Zohal and the Peerzadas appeared to be in no mood to continue the battle in courts. The paper reported, Luke, Zohal and her boyfriend Sahil Peerzada met in Delhi on Wednesday along with their lawyers and chalked out an agreement.

On Wednesday morning Sahil’s elder brother Feroze had said, he had advised his brother to forgive Luke and withdraw the complaint. "I respect our culture of forgiving and forgetting. Luke should also apologize for his behaviour", he told TOI.

On a parallel level, Delhi Police on Wednesday said they were probing the charges according to the procedure and a chargesheet will be filed soon, but with an out-of-court settlement having been reached, the chargesheet may however not materialize.

In another twist to the tale, controversial arms deal Abhishek Verma, who had described Zohal as his ’rakhi-sister’ tweeted: "Truly disappointed@sidharthamallya as his tweet doesn’t contain an apology. How difficult is it to say, Sorry Zohal. I take my words back."