With that hashtag #betibachao, Azmi wrote on Twitter “My wife Ayesha Takia , mother & sisters are being harassed, threatened stalked by a litigant, Mumbai Police DCP Dahiya refusing to answer my calls or messages. #DahiyaIPS has illegally frozen our bank accounts Dear PM Modi ji Sushma Swaraj Pls intervene!! ”
He also shared screenshots of his conversation with the DCP of ZONE 9.
He later thanked Deven Bharti, Joint CP(Law & Order) of Mumbai Police for stepping in.
Last year, Farhan Azmi has filed a complaint at the Colaba police station after he received some threat calls from an unknown person. A leading daily quoted Azmi saying that the caller claimed to be from the Hindu Sena and allegedly told him that his family would be targeted and killed for he married a Hindu woman.
In the Bollywood industry, Ayesha Takia is known for her movies like ‘Dor’, ‘Taarzan : The Wonder Car’ and Salman Khan starrer ‘Wanted’. She has also appeared in a few Tollywood movies. She has a son with her husband Farhan Azmi.