Preity files case against Mid-Day

NDTV: "Bollywood actress Preity Zinta has filed a defamation case against Mumbai-based daily Mid-Day.

The defamation complaint is based on a transcript of a conversation – supposedly between Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai – in which Salman referred to his relationship with Zinta.

The transcript had appeared in Mid-Day's 15 July issue. In July this year, the alleged conversation made headlines in the media. The newspaper and the news channel, which "broke" this story, had claimed that this conversation was taped by the Mumbai police.

However, the police said that recent forensic laboratory reports showed that the tape was not authentic and that the voices of persons in the tape did not match those of Aishwarya and Salman.

Zinta has moved the court only against Mid-Day because the other newspapers and channels hadn't aired/printed part of the conversation which referred to her.

"It is something on record (the tapes); we just reproduced it. We feel bad about it, but that is what it was," said Lajwanti D'Souza, Mid-Day. (PTI)"