Shah Rukh Khan gets clean chit in IPL 2012 Wankhede brawl case

The Mumbai police has filed a report saying that no cognisable offence was made out against Shahrukh Khan after investigation in this case during IPL 2012.

Mumbai: After four years, Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan has been given a clean chit in the 2012 Wankhede stadium brawl case. Following the incident, the Mumbai Cricket Association had imposed a five-year ban on Khan which was lifted last year. The Mumbai police has filed a report saying that no cognisable offence was made out against Khan after investigation in this case. A petition had been filed by an activist with regard to the incident, seeking action against the movie star for abusing security personnel within the stadium after an IPL match.

Presenting his version of the incident, Khan had said that security guard Vikas Dalvi asked him and his kids to leave the grounds after they entered it post his team Kolkata Knight Riders’ victory.  The actor had conveyed to the police that he got angry when someone spoke to him in indecent language. Shah Rukh, however, denied he had misbehaved and maintained he reacted only after children, including his kids, were “manhandled” by the security staff at the stadium.

The MCA had informed a local police station to prevent KKR principal owner Shah Rukh from entering the stadium. The Bollywood superstar was banned for five years from entering MCA premises, including the Wankhede Stadium, by the Association’s Managing Committee, headed by the late Vilasrao Deshmukh, on May 18 in 2012, after he was involved in a skirmish with security staff and officials of the cricket body following KKR’s victory over Mumbai in the final of IPL 2012 against Mumbai Indians.