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Actress Rupali Ganguly has taken legal action against her stepdaughter, Esha Verma, for alleged defamation.
Ganguly has filed a Rs 50 crore lawsuit, claiming that Verma’s social media posts have damaged her reputation.
The legal notice, issued by Ganguly’s lawyer Sana Raees Khan, alleges that Verma made false and defamatory statements about the actress on platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Facebook.
As per reports, in an interview, the 26-year-old accused Rupali of physically assaulting her mother in Mumbai, stating, “Rupali physically hit my mother in person in Mumbai.” Esha also accused Ashwin of being “a very abusive man physically and emotionally.”
Esha further stated, “I was devastated, crying in high school because of the women who deliberately came into our lives, who broke my parent’s marriage, who physically hit my mother in person in Mumbai in my grandparent’s house. To see her win, that’s the most devastating thing which I have gone through. I’m not pinpointing just Rupali here; I have also gathered the strength to say it is my father’s fault. He was also a very abusive man physically and emotionally so it’s a two-party street.”
Esha Verma has alleged that her father pressured her to delete the social media posts after they went viral. She has also shared a disturbing incident involving Rupali Ganguly staying in her parents’ shared bed during a visit to New Jersey. “It was Rupali who told my father to give my mother the divorce papers,” Esha revealed.
Esha continued,”I don’t know what Rupali and Ashwin will say further about these allegations and comments. I know my father has said something on Twitter now X. He said that Rupali was not involved, and that is the biggest lie because Rupali was the one who came to my house in New Jersey and slept on my mother’s bed-the bed that my father and mother shared. She has done so much, physically, mentally, verbally, and emotionally, abusing me and my mom. I feel like that was a lot of trauma I had to deal with and suffer with and my mom did too. We suffered a lot, and we don’t have that exposure as she does.”
On Monday, Ashwin K Verma stated X (previously Twitter) and addressed the allegations leveled against him and Rupali. He wrote, “I do have two daughters from previous relationships, something Rupali and I have always been open about that I care a great deal about. I understand that my younger daughter still feels a lot of hurt about the dissolution of her parent’s relationship as divorce is a difficult experience that can greatly affect and harm the children of that marriage. But marriages end for many reasons, and my relationship with my second wife had multiple challenges that led to our separation challenges that were between she and me and that had nothing to do with any other person. I only want the best for my children and my wife and it saddens me to see anyone being pulled into cycles of negativity by the media.“
Esha Verma, 26, is the daughter of Ashwin and Sapna Verma and currently lives in the United States. Ashwin and Sapna divorced in 2008. Ashwin later married Rupali Ganguly in 2013, and they have a son together named Rudransh.
