Madhur Bhandarkar guilty in rape case

MUMBAI - A city court Wednesday convicted director Madhur Bhandarkar of raping model-turned-actress Priti Jain, five years after her complaint to the police.

The aspiring actress had complained to the police in 2004 and alleged that Bhandarkar and she “had sex 16 times between 1999 and 2004″.

“Madhur had promised to give me a lead role in his films. However, he didn’t offer me a lead role in any of his movies. At times when I refused, he raped me,” she said then.

Bhandarkar made three films in the five years that he knew Jain — “Chandni Bar”, “Satta” and “Aan” — and she complained that she had no role in any of them. “Bhandarkar’s forthcoming movie, ‘Page 3′, also does not feature me,” she had told reporters soon after filing her case.

Jain further alleged that Bhandarkar had promised to marry her and make her a star.