Peepli Live director convicted of raping US woman
The district court in Saket, New Delhi has convicted filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui, the co-director of the 2010 film 'Peepli Live', of raping a 35-year-old American research scholar from Columbia University in 2015. The court will hear the arguments on quantum of sentence on August 2. Earlier, Farooqui denied the allegations saying that he was falsely implicated.