The Hrithik Roshan-Kangana Ranaut saga has been playing out endlessly over the last few weeks. While the actor has lost precious time from work, the actress and her legal team has continuously maintained that the FIR has not been shared with them. On Monday morning, the story took a new turn.

Sources say that when Cyber Crime Cell officials reached Kangana's Khar residence to inspect her laptop, they were reportedly told that the actress was not at home. One source added, “We were told that she has left town.“ When we contacted Senior Inspector Kalpana Gadekar of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell, she said, “I'm sorry, I cannot give you any information.“ On her part, Kangana replied with a text message saying, “Cops never visited me. I am very much in town and not going anywhere.“

Nevertheless, this whole episode has thrown up several questions. Is Kangana trying to hide something? Why is she delaying giving the cops access to her laptop? Why is she not recording her statement in this regard? Bombay Times spoke to a member of Hrithik's legal team, and asked him a few pertinent questions.

Why did Hrithik react to a random statement about silly exes?
Hrithik had been on the receiving end of exaggerated forms of attention over a period of time. Given the nature of circumstances within his private life that demanded his immediate attention, he chose to ignore all manifestations of such unwarranted and completely undesired for attention. There has been a long period of harassment over two years that Hrithik has suffered, but it was in private through an incessant barrage of emails. All this he went through without reacting, hoping to discourage the behaviour. The madness of the entire thing is indescribable here. When the 'silly ex' comment was made, he was familiar with the depth of this entire thing. So something that is coming across as a very innocuous or inconsequential reference to all of us, was indeed a very serious situation for him. After being harassed in private, this was now threatening to becoming a public one. When there has no been emotional or physical relationship of any kind, then where does the question of being a 'silly ex' even arise?

Why did Hrithik go via the legal route?
The legal route is now preferred by Hrithik because for him there is absolutely nothing to hide. The law and judiciary are equal for all and their findings are based on facts and evidence as against opinions, assumptions and perceptions.

Why did Hrithik say she has Asperger's syndrome?
He didn't say that she was suffering. She did. She has been confessing in her communication that in this syndrome people sometimes have imaginary relationships and she named it Asperger's. He only quoted her words with the date of the email. Hrithik mentioned this in his notice hoping elders in her family would intervene and help her. He was told that a legal notice is private and not a document that will be carelessly circulated in media.

What are the questions that you want to ask those who are blaming him for this mess?
Stop. Think. Don't buy stereotypical narratives of gender and class so easily. Why has she not been adequately questioned? Common sense demands some credible evidence of the so called seven years of relationship ending with an engagement in Paris, like selfies, engagement pictures, even a paparazzi picture, or any thing. Don't empower a person of any gender, so much that he or she can first create a mass illusion and secondly get away with it. It's not a matter of shame that we have believed her, but it's a matter of shame that we have undermined commonsensical questions.

What is he hoping the legal battle will establish?
The simple truth. Hrithik was never in an intimate personal relationship with the person concerned. That's it. He is hoping to establish the nature of untruth that is being spoken and circulated. He stands firm in his decision to bring to light the fact that all statements implicating him to be a willing partner in a relationship with the person concerned are false. He will do all that is necessary to do so within the ambit of the law. Also, we are forgetting the complexity of the situation. There is a responsibility and an ongoing investigation to catch the impersonator here who has been the trigger to fuel an already underlying silent obsession of a woman. For that he must show all the evidence he has. The problem is that we don't really believe that a woman can harass a man. It always has to be the other way round. Hrithik has practically no involvement in this at all. The relationship transpired between the identity thief and the lady in question who, when once was made aware, shockingly carried forward that email relationship to Hrithik's real email id. That is when the harassment began and grew from private to public. Tabloid bred accusations and insinuations will have little bearing on the truth. Hrithik remains assured and confident that truth will vindicate him sooner than later.

Do you think he has been judged too quickly by a section of the media?
We live in times where unfortunately tabloid journalism has become more than just a fad. It's really up to each and every member of the media to decide what tone they want to adopt when reporting any matter that they deem newsworthy. A balanced tone would be most appreciated. The truth will not change and Hrithik will stand vindicated.