Guwahati: Shah Rukh Khan received relief on Monday after the Supreme Court supported the Gujarat High Court’s decision to drop the charges against him in connection with the 2017 stampede at Vadodara Railway Station.
Shahrukh Khan’s complaint was dismissed by a jury consisting of Justices CT Ravikumar and Ajay Rastogi. The Gujarat High Court ruling had been contested by the complainant. The High Court of Gujarat’s decision to dismiss the complaint the complainant had brought against the actor was upheld by the Supreme Court, which declined to intervene.
Shah Rukh Khan’s criminal action against him for allegedly creating a stampede at Vadodara Railway Station in 2017 while promoting his movie Raees was dismissed by the Gujarat High Court on April 27, 2022. To promote their Hindi feature film “Raees,” the actor was travelling from Mumbai to Delhi with his production crew.
The complainant, Jitendra Madhubhai Solanki had filed a private complaint against Khan before the Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Vadodara, alleging his presence at the Vadodara Railway Station coupled with him throwing T-shirts and smiley balls at the crowd assembled at the station led to the alleged stampede.
Shah Rukh Khan filed a petition with the High Court of Gujarat asking for the complaint to be dismissed, and the court eventually decided to do so in a judgement dated April 27, 2022.
Senior advocates Vijay Kumar and Siddharth Luthra, briefed by a group from Karanjawala and Company Advocates led by Ruby Singh Ahuja and Sandeep Kapur, Senior Partners, represented the petitioner and Shah Rukh Khan, respectively.