Privacy please: Preity

Mumbai: Privacy is what actress Preity Zinta is seeking. At least she said so, adding that she will not be able to comment as the investigation is underway.

“Exhausted but happy to finally be back home in Mumbai. I would like to apologise to the media but it will not be possible for me to make any comments or statements as this investigation is still on. Please cooperate and please don’t call my staff or friends non-stop as they have requested me to make this appeal to you all on their behalf,” she wrote in a Facebook post.

Preity returned to Mumbai on Sunday from the US and is likely to record her statement before the police in the next two days. The 39-year-old actress, who had left India soon after filing an FIR against Wadia on June 12, arrived at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport here this afternoon and refused to speak to the waiting mediapersons.

Deputy Police Commissioner Ravindra Shisve, who is supervising the probe, said, “As she has arrived in Mumbai, her statement would be recorded soon.” However, another officer privy to the probe stated that the actress’s supplementary statement would be recorded either on Monday or on Tuesday.

Preity had left for US after she filed a case against Wadia accusing him of grabbing her hand and pushing her during the IPL match between Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings on May 30. She had filed the police complaint only on June 12, after the IPL season ended.

Police had tried to reach out to Preity through various means, urging her to record her statement in the case as soon as possible. It finally wrote to the actress asking her to record the statement in a week’s time. The police had earlier claimed that IPL Chairman Ranjib Biswal spoke to Preity soon after her alleged public spat with Wadia on May 30. The statement of BCCI secretary Sanjay Patil has also been recorded. So far, the police have recorded eight statements.

Police had on Thursday questioned COO Sundar Raman who corroborated Zinta’s claim that she had informed him about her May 30 spat with former boyfriend.