Peepli Live co-director Mahmood Farooqui convicted in rape case

Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain convicted Farooqui under rape charges and fixed August 2 for hearing arguments on quantum of sentence.

Delhi Police have accused Farooqui of raping a 35-year-old American woman from Columbia University who was in India for research on her doctoral thesis. Farooqui has denied the allegations, saying he was falsely implicated.