Sonu Nigam and his crew had been allegedly manhandled by the MLA’s son Swapnil Phaterpekar throughout a scuffle over taking a selfie with the singer at a musical occasion in Mumbai’s Chembur on Monday.
Sharing particulars of the incident, Swapnil’s sister, who was the organiser of the Chembur competition, mentioned that Sonu Nigam was being hurriedly ushered off the stage after delivering his efficiency when her brother tried to take a selfie with him however because of the rush a scuffle broke out.
“As organiser of the Chembur competition, I want to make clear some info concerning the unlucky incident that occurred on the finish of Chembur Competition 2023. Whereas Shri Sonu Nigam was being hurriedly ushered off the stage after delivering his efficiency,” she mentioned in a sequence of tweets.
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“my brother was making an attempt to take a selfie with him. Because of the rush & furore, there was a commotion that ensued. The one that fell was taken to Zen hospital & was discharged after examination,” she added.
She additional mentioned that Sonu Nigam was not harm within the incident and that the organisation crew has formally apologised to him and his crew for the “disagreeable incident”.
“Please don’t consider any baseless rumours and people who try to politicize the matter,” she mentioned.
Chatting with ANI, Suprada mentioned that it was only a fan second gone fallacious.
Following the incident on Monday night time, the 49-year-old singer filed a grievance based mostly on which the Chembur police registered an FIR in opposition to Swapnil underneath Indian Penal Code Sections 323 (voluntarily inflicting harm), 341 (wrongful restraint), and 337 (inflicting harm by act endangering life or private security of others).
A video of the incident has been doing the rounds on social media platforms by which Nigam and his colleagues had been seen getting down from the stage after the efficiency when a person (recognized as Swapnil Phaterpekar) got here from behind and tried to click on a selfie with him.