Former Indian cricketer Vinod Kambli and his wife Andrea Hewitt, on Sunday, were involved in an alleged dissension with Bollywood singer Ankit Tiwari’s father, Raj Kumar Tiwari.
The incident took place in Mumbai’s Inorbit Mall. A CCTV footage shows Andrea hitting a man with her bag. The man was later identified as 59-year-old Rajendra Tiwari. Later Kambli stepped in and a heated argument broke out between him and Tiwaris.
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Kambli and Andrea have claimed that RK Tiwari deliberately brushed his hand against Andrea, “We were at the Game Zone in the mall around 3 pm when my wife caught hold of an old man’s hand. He had deliberately brushed his hand against her and when she caught him in the act, he pushed her away.”
“Minutes later when we were at the food court, two men, who we assume were the man’s sons, tried to attack my wife. When I told them to back off, they told me, ‘You don’t know who we are’,” Kambli told Mumbai Mirror.
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Kambli’s wife claimed that the man attempted to take “advantage of the crowds”. Andrea narrated, “He appeared scared, and said something in Hindi, on the lines that ‘I cannot do something like this’. The inappropriate touching ka zamaana is over. Such things should be dealt with strictly.”
Interestingly, Kambli and Andrea haven’t filed any complaints with the police yet but the Tiwaris have lodged an FIR against the cricketer and his wife.
Ankur Tiwari claims his father was baffled after the attack. “My father, a retired bank employee, had accompanied my daughter to the Game Zone. My father told me he spotted Vinod Kambli there, and as he was walking past a woman, he blacked out.
“My father was disoriented after the attack. He couldn’t believe he had been punched, and that a woman was screaming, accusing him of brushing his hand against her. I asked my father to identify the woman, and we realised she was Kambli’s wife,” Ankur said. RK Tiwari has even claimed that Andrea took off her sandal to beat him.