The Andhra Pradesh High Court Wednesday directed actor Genelia D'Souza to look before it personally or through her lawyer in
a cheating case associated with the acquisition of a home from an organization for which she was brand ambassador.
The court asked for April 25 appearance to provide an explanation for why her name shouldn't be included within the first information report (FIR), said Balaji, counsel of the petitioner Chatta Tirupathaiah.
The high court was coping with a petition Tirupathaiah filed regarding his purchase of a duplex house from real estate company Anjaniputra Infrastructure Pvt Ltd (APiPL).
He alleged that police had not complied with a lower court's order to file a case against Genelia and five directors of the corporate for defaulting on giving him possession of the duplex house.
Tirupathaiah alleged that the police registered an FIR against directors of the true estate firm but disregarded Genelia.
The Nampally court, on his petition, last month directed Saifabad police to register a case.
Tirupataiah alleged that Genelia because the brand ambassador lured customers to the corporate by giving it a clean chit for good management practices and thus had a task within the fraud.
According to him, she had even claimed within the promotion that she was one the administrators of the corporate and purchased plots within the venture.
Tirupataiah in 2008 had paid Rs.54 lakh to APiPL for a plot and construction of a duplex house on it at Kalvakolu village within the Maheswaram mandal of Ranga Reddy district. The home has not yet been constructed. He claimed the company, which collected nearly Rs.250 crore from buyers had not even begun the registration process for the venture.
