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A few days back, Luviena Lodh shared a two-minute-long clipping on Instagram wherein she accused Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt of threatening her and her family. Lodh, who is married to Bhatt's nephew Sumit Sabharwal, revealed that she has filed for divorce from her husband while imposing serious allegations that he supplies drugs. As of Monday, after her serious allegations, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and his brother Mukesh Bhatt filed a defamation suit in the Bombay High Court against Luviena Lodh for making defamatory, slanderous and false allegations on Bhatt.

They have also sought Rs 1 crore in damages from Lodh and on Monday, the plea was taken up by Justice A K Menon who asked her to file a reply. On the plea, Luviena's advocates assured the court she would not publish or make any such statement against the Bhatts. As in the viral video, she claimed that Mahesh Bhatt was aware of her husband's business. Check out her full video here -

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I m being harrased by Mahesh Bhatt & family. Pls support.

A post shared by Actor | Luviena Lodh (@luvienalodh) on Oct 23, 2020 at 2:26am PDT

As per the defamation suit in the Bombay High Court against Luviena Lodh, it stated that `The suit is also seeking damages to the tune of Rs one crore from the respondent (Lodh) for making various grossly defamatory, slanderous, distasteful and false allegations and statements against the applicants (Bhatts)." The suit further claimed Sabharwal was not directly related to the Bhatts and that he was the son of the applicants' sister's husband's brother.