Mumbai:
The husband of former Miss World Yukta Mookhey has moved the Bombay High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case of alleged cruelty and domestic violence.
Prince Tuli's petition is likely to come up for hearing tomorrow.
On August 31, a sessions court had rejected his plea for anticipatory bail. The same court had earlier granted him protection from arrest.
Ms Mookhey had moved the High Court challenging sessions court order granting her husband interim protection. The High Court asked Ms Mookhey to approach the sessions court which was to hear Mr Tuli's pre-arrest bail.
In a complaint to police in July this year, Ms Mookhey had accused her husband of subjecting her to domestic violence and forcing her to have unnatural sex. She also accused her in-laws of cruelty and harassment.
Fearing arrest, Mr Tuli and his family sought anticipatory bail. While a sessions granted pre-arrest bail to Ms Mookhey's in-laws, the plea of her husband was rejected.
However, the High Court, while hearing Ms Mookhey's plea, had observed earlier that the sessions court had not taken into consideration that the offence under section 498 A (cruelty) IPC was a 'continuing offence'.