MUMBAI: The Mumbai city police have summoned Indian actress Kangana Ranaut and her sister to record their statement, following a complaint lodged by Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan against unknown persons for alleged impersonation.

After Roshan approached the suburban Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) police, an FIR was registered against unknown persons for allegedly creating a fake email ID in the actor’s name and using it to chat with his fans.

Recently, when Roshan and Ranaut had sent legal notices to each other, the Queen star revealed that she was corresponding with Roshan through mails.

Roshan had, however, refuted this and said the email ID was not created by him.

Ranaut’s advocate Rizwan Siddiqui, in a statement released on March 31, said the cyber crime cell of BKC police had issued summons to the actress and her sister Rangoli to appear before it within a week so as to record their statements.

In reply to the summons, Siddiqui also said that no police officer can summon his client Ranaut and her sister to any police station to record their statement, as a witness under section 160 of CrPC.

“The witness summons sent to my client and her sister by the police officer are patently illegal, as no woman can be called to the police station to record her statements as per the provisions of law,” he said in the statement.

According to the lawyer, Ranaut had willingly expressed her desire to co-operate with police officers, in accordance with the provisions of law.

Roshan, in his legal notice to Ranaut, claimed to have received about 1,439 emails from the Tanu Weds Manu Returns actor on his correct email ID, and also the forwarded emails she had sent to the fake ID and the replies received therein.