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Mahmood Farooqui is an Indian writer, performer and director. He specializes in a type of story-telling known as Dastangoi. Farooqui along with his uncle Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, noted Urdu poet and literary critic, revived Dastangoi, the ancient art of Urdu story telling.
Sep 30, 2017 · The Delhi High Court’s decision to overturn the trial court’s conviction of Mahmood Farooqui under Section 376 raises several far-reaching questions, not only about the meaning of consent and the standard for proving lack of consent in a rape prosecution, but also about the purpose of Criminal Law and the limits of the criminal trial process.
Apr 26, 2018 · In September 2017, the Delhi High Court overturned the judgment of the Trial Court, which had convicted theatre personality Mahmood Farooqui for rape and acquitted him. The complaint of rape was...
Aug 4, 2016 · A special fast-track court in New Delhi on Thursday sentenced Mahmood Farooqui to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment for the rape of a 30-year-old American scholar from Columbia University at his house last year.
Sep 26, 2017 · Mahmood Farooqui was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2016 for sexually assaulting an American postgraduate student while she was visiting his home in Delhi.
Jul 31, 2016 · ‘Peepli Live’ co-director Mahmood Farooqui. A special fast track court on Saturday convicted filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui of raping a research scholar from the United States in Delhi last year.
Jul 30, 2016 · Filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui. (File photo) Delhi’s Saket court on Saturday convicted ‘Peepli Live’ film co-director Mahmood Farooqui for raping a 35-year-old American woman in 2015. The court fixed August 2 for arguments to finalise the quantum of sentence to Farooqui.
