Actor Hansika Motwani and her mother Jyoti Motwani are accused of cruelty in the First Information Report (FIR) lodged against them under section section 498-A, at the behest of her sister-in-law Muskan James.
Hansika along with her mother has urged the bench to quash the FIR lodged against them in December 2024 by Muskan, who married her brother Prashant Motwani in December 2020. The couple parted ways in December 2022.
The charges against the actor and her mother are charges of cruelty (section 498-a), criminal intimidation (section 506), intentional insult (section 504) and causing hurt (section 323) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Hansika and her mother were granted anticipatory bail in February 2025 by a sessions court in Mumbai.
They have now petitioned the Bombay High Court with a prayer to quash the FIR. The hearing is fixed on 3rd July.