Karishma`s husband records statement in extortion demand case

New Delhi: The husband of Bollywood actress Karishma Kapoor today deposed in a Delhi court in connection with a four-year-old extortion case in which a threatening email was sent to him demanding Rs 50 crore. "I received an email on August 25, 2005, in which a demand of Rs 50 crore was made from me. The email also asked me not to harass my wife Karishma with whom I was having litigation at that time," Sanjay Kapur said.

Recording his statement in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, Kapur said he had informed the Delhi Police about it after receiving the email. "The email had also warned me against troubling or harassing my wife Karishma and the daughter", he said. Kapur also verified his signature on the complaint and testified that he had not fulfilled the demand for money. In his cross-examination, the Delhi-based businessman denied he had known or had ever met accused Raj Kumar Wazirchand Wazirani, a Mumbai resident, who was arrested in the case by the Delhi Police five days after the incident from the commercial capital of the country. Kapur admitted that at the time of receiving the mail, he was having matrimonial litigation with his wife. He also denied he knew Sarvesh Tiwari whose cyber café was allegedly used to send the mail to him. He termed as incorrect a suggestion that he had himself generated the mail to pressurise his wife with whom he had later settled his marital discord. Bureau Report