Indore, Sep 01: A district court here has "discharged" Bollywood actor Govinda, from a cheating case filed against him and two others by a local financier. Additional District Judge Manohar Mamtani discharged the actor from the case on August 30, Govinda's advocate Dipesh Joshi told a news agency here today. The financer Suresh Garg had filed the complaint against the actor, Prakash Jaju and a firm -- ad labs, claiming that the trio had failed to return Rs 10 lakh taken from him for producing a film "Dil Laga Ke Dekho" starring Govinda. The court gave its decision on a revision petition filed by Govinda's counsel against a lower court order directing trial against them in the case, the counsel said.

However, when the trio failed to return the money after the film was shelved, Garg filed a cheating case against the actor and others, he said.
He said the actor had pleaded that since he had nothing to do with the dealings between Garg and Jaju and ad labs, he should be discharged from the case, which the court upheld and discharged Govinda, the counsel said.
However, trial against others would continue. Bureau Report