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Published 09:38 IST, August 13th 2019

Shweta Tiwari's daughter Palak accuses step-father Abhinav Kohli of domestic abuse, inappropriate & disturbing remarks; stands up for her mother

An offence was registered against Kohli under IPC sections 354-A (sexual harassment), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation).

Reported by: Chetna Kapoor
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Television actor Abhinav Kohli was arrested after wife and actress Shweta Tiwari registered a police complaint against him for domestic violence. Shweta along with daughter Palak filed a complaint at Samta Nagar police station in Kandivali East, Mumbai. Reacting to the media reports, Shweta Tiwari's daughter Palak took to her Instagram handle and made some shocking allegations on Kohli.

READ | TV Actor Abhinav Kohli Arrested For Sexually Harassing Woman

She began the post by thanking everyone who reached out to her to express their concern and support. And later went on to clarify some facts. She said: "I, Palak Tiwari, was on multiple occasions a victim of domestic abuse NOT my mother, except for the day that the complaint was filed he hadn’t hit my mother. As a reader of the news its often easy to forget that you do not know the truth of what goes on behind closed doors or how much fortitude my mother has shown in both her marriages. This is someone’s household you’re writing about, someone’s life you’re discussing. Many of you, fortunately, haven’t even dealt with something of such heinous proportions, and hence you have no right to comment, discuss or paint someone else’s image through your biased, misinformed views."

She further said: "It’s beyond disgusting and its time that i stand up for my mother for she is the strongest person i know and since out of all of us I’m the only person who’s witnessed her struggle day in and day out, my opinion is the only one that matters." 

"Abhinav Kohli has never physically molested me, or touched me inappropriately. Before spreading something of this caliber or even believing it, its imperative you as readers know the veracity of the facts that you’re blindly divulging endlessly. However, he did persistently make inappropriate and disturbing remarks the impact of which is only known to my mother and I, and if any woman from any walk of life were to hear them she would be greatly embarrassed and provoked too. Words which would question the standing dignity of any woman, which you wouldn’t expect to hear from any man, especially not your “father”."

"Seeing our lives through social media, reading about us in the papers can only tell you so much about our struggles, but never enough to comment on them. Today as a proud daughter, I’m here to tell you that my mother is the most respectable individual that I’ve ever come across, the MOST self sufficient, one who’s never required or even had a man provide for her and has always taken the social standing of a “man” in both the families that we’ve been a part of," Palak wrote on her Instagram post.

Updated 09:46 IST, August 13th 2019

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