Raja Chaudhary reveals he caught Abhinav Kohli misbehaving with his daughter Palak in 2010

MUMBAI: Recently, Shweta Tiwari made headlines when she lodged a police complaint against husband Abhinav Kohli for allegedly outraging her 19-year-old daughter Palak’s modesty. The teenager is Shweta’s daughter with her first husband, actor Raja Chaudhary. According to the latest reports, Abhinav secured bail yesterday from a local court after paying Rs.15000. There were reports that Abhinav used to pass sexually coloured remarks, however, Palak cleared the air by saying that she is the victim of domestic abuse and not her mother. She also mentioned that she was never molested or physically abused at the hands of her step-father.

Later, in an interview with BT, Raja Chaudhary gave his statement on the same. He said that he learned about it via media and it is disturbing for him as a father. And now, in an interview with Mid-day, Raja said that his ex-wife is responsible for this and also accused that he caught Abhinav red-handed when he touched Palak inappropriately back in 2010. 

He said, “This was expected. My ex-wife is responsible. My ex-wife was busy with a reality show and our daughter was alone at home. Once, when I entered their house in Malad, I was shocked to see the way he [the accused] was staring at her and touching her inappropriately. This riled me up and we had a heated argument. The matter reached the Malad police where I slapped him at the police station premises.” 

Raja also said after knowing about the police complaint, he contacted his daughter. He said, “I do not know how low he stooped to outrage her modesty but I texted my daughter who responded to my messages saying she was 'okay' and that I 'need not worry'. At present, she is reeling under mental agony but I will speak to her to know the details in a few days."

View this post on Instagram

Firstly, i would like to thank everyone who’s reached out to express their concern and support. Secondly, i would like to address and clarify a few things out of my own rectitude: The media does not have the facts and they never will. I, Palak Tiwari, was on multiple occasions a victim of domestic abuse NOT my mother, except for the day that the complaint was filed he hadn’t hit my mother. As a reader of the news its often easy to forget that you do not know the truth of what goes on behind closed doors or how much fortitude my mother has shown in both her marriages. This is someone’s household you’re writing about, someone’s life you’re discussing. Many of you fortunately haven’t even dealt with something of such heinous proportions, and hence you have no right to comment, discuss or paint someone else’s image through your biased, misinformed views. It’s beyond disgusting and its time that i stand up for my mother for she is the strongest person i know and since out of all of us I’m the only person who’s witnessed her struggle day in and day out, my opinion is the only one that matters. Abhinav Kohli has never physically molested me, or touched me inappropriately. Before spreading something of this caliber or even believing it, its imperative you as readers know the veracity of the facts that you’re blindly divulging endlessly. However, he did persistently make inappropriate and disturbing remarks the impact of which is only known to my mother and I, and if any woman from any walk of life were to hear them she would be greatly embarrassed and provoked too. Words which would question the standing dignity of any woman, which you wouldn’t expect to hear from any man, especially not your “father”. Seeing our lives through social media, reading about us in the papers can only tell you so much about our struggles, but never enough to comment on them. Today as a proud daughter, I’m here to tell you that my mother is the most respectable individual that I’ve ever come across, the MOST self sufficient, one who’s never required or even had a man provide for her and has always taken the social standing of a “man” in both the families that we’ve been a part of.

A post shared by Palak Tiwari (@palaktiwarii) on Aug 12, 2019 at 10:34am PDT