Court Disposes Of Ameesha Patel's Rs 2.5 Cr Cheque Bounce Case After She Agrees To Pay Producer In Full

A court in Ranchi on Friday disposed of the Rs 2.8 crore cheque bounce case against Ameesha Patel. The actress settled the full amount owed to the complainant, producer Ajay Kumar Singh. A bench comprising Judicial Magistrate DN Shukla then declared the case resolved.

Both parties discussed the dispute and then settled it through mediation. The case was settled via alternate dispute resolution after Ameesha agreed to pay the full settlement amount to Ajay. Ajay is the owner of Lovely World Entertainment. The case had been pending in court for over six years.

For the unversed, in 2018, film producer Ajay Kumar Singh from Ranchi filed a case against Ameesha Patel and her business partner, Kunal, accusing them of extortion under the pretext of music production. He alleged that Ameesha Patel had received Rs 2.5 crore from him regarding the production of a film called Desi Magic.

According to the contract between them, when the film was not released as agreed in June 2018, Ajay demanded repayment from Ameesha. Despite multiple reminders, the actress procrastinated, eventually issuing two cheques totalling Rs 2.5 crore and Rs 50 lakh in October 2018, both of which bounced. Despite several summons, Ameesha Patel did not appear in court, either in person or through her lawyer. Subsequently, a warrant was issued for her arrest, leading her to surrender in the civil court on June 19, 2023. Following the hearing, the court granted her bail on two bonds of Rs 10,000 each.

In an exclusive conversation with News18 Showsha last year, Ameesha said that it was the complainant’s intention to derive fame using her name but she always had faith in the Indian judiciary to bring her justice. “I believe in our judicial system and judiciary and I believed that the law would take its course and it has. The Supreme Court has granted relief to me and has quashed the wrong things that he said. It was all Mr Ajay’s ulterior motives. He was just wanting to get famous by using a name. The Supreme Court has seen it through and has stayed the matter of cheating and breach of trust, which was anyway never the case,” she claimed.