Delhi:
Delhi-based tarot card reader and socialite Poonam Sethi was at the Kirti Nagar police station late on Wednesday night to lodge an FIR. Sethi's friends and clients were receiving mobile text messages and emails claiming she was running "a full time sex racket for starved married women from a covert south Delhi rented apartment".
"I started getting calls from acquaintances about the SMS," said a visibly distraught Sethi to MiD DAY at a club in south Delhi where she was attending a designer friend's party. "I have no idea who is trying to malign my name which I have earned after so much pain and labour," said the 34-year-old socialite, who has been writing columns for newspapers for a few years now.
Later in evening, she decided to lodge a formal police complaint. "We have known her since childhood and it's all false," said her friend Raman Suri, who accompanied her to the police station.
The SMS also mentions that she is "involved in a number of sex- based illicit affairs with young boys, especially from economically weaker sections and her male tarot card clients". "I'm sure her husband Sanjay Sethi is behind this because they have been having marital discord for a very long time," said a socialite who didn't wish to be named.
However, when contacted late at night, her husband Sanjay Sethi flatly denied the allegations. "It's absolutely false that I'm the one behind the SMS and she has no proof." When asked about her husband's alleged involvement behind the matter the tarot card reader didn't deny the fact that she was undergoing marital discord but said: "I won't take anybody's name right now. Let the law take its course."