Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty told the Bombay High Court on Thursday (October 16) that she was withdrawing her application for permission to travel abroad as the plans did not materialise.
She is currently involved in a ₹60 crore cheating case with her businessman husband Raj Kundra.
Here is what Shilpa Shetty told the court:
Shetty’s counsel Niranjan Mundargi submitted to a bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad that the actor was withdrawing her plea.
“When she and her husband wish to travel in the future, they will file a fresh application for the court’s permission. She (Shetty) is not pushing for the current application,” he said.
About the trip:
Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra have applied for permission to travel abroad due to their professional commitments and one leisure trip between October and January 2026.
During previous hearings, the court said it could not allow holiday trips for the couple, who were accused in a case of cheating and fraud, and said it would consider their case only if they were willing to post a deposit. ₹60 million crowns.
However, Raj Kundra rubbished the reports of the alleged deposit, claiming that the media was distorting the facts.
Shetty has been trying to travel to the United States since she was invited to an event there last week in October. The court then asked her to produce the agreement or summons she had received.
Mundargi then said that no deal could be signed until the actor got permission from the court to travel. He had earlier said that both Shetty and Kundra cooperated with the investigating officer in the case and also appeared for questioning.
What is ₹A case of 60 million cheating?
One Deepak Kothari filed a complaint against the couple alleging that they forced him to invest between 2015 and 2023 ₹60 crores in their company Best Deal TV Pvt Ltd but this amount was used for their own personal benefits.
The couple filed a petition in the HC last month seeking suspension of the Look Out Circular (LOC) issued against them at the behest of the city police’s Economic Offenses Wing (EOW), which is investigating the case.
On Thursday, the court accepted the actor’s withdrawal and posted the couple’s application to suspend the LOC for hearing on November 17.
