Karan Johar defends Rhea Pillai on Twitter against Paes' allegations

A week after Indian tennis star, Leander Paes approached the Mumbai Police with a criminal complaint against his former live-in partner Rhea Pillai and also filed a guardianship petition in the Bandra family court seeking custody of his daughter, filmmaker Karan Johar came out in defense of Pillai. Johar took to Twitter to defend Pillai and said that she is a caring person and also slammed the media for not being sensitive. [caption id=“attachment_1514341” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Courtesy: Twitter[/caption] He posted, “Rhea is the most loving,loyal and wonderful friend,mother and partner…have known her for over 2 decades..recent reportage is unwarranted..” he tweeted " Sad that sometimes you have to stand and defend goodness. I appreciate the media’s need to report..I wish it came with a little sensitivity," he added. While details of the police complaint filed by Paes are not known, details from the guardianship petition have been reported in great length (Read by here and here.) Paes and Pillai were in a live-in relationship and had a daughter in 2006. According to Mumbai Mirror, Paes’ guardianship petition slams Rhea for being an irresponsible mother, not caring enough for their child and for being self-indulgent while contrasting Paes as a loving, caring father. The report said that the reason that the petition goes into so much detail against Rhea is that in case of live-in, the law tends to come out in support of the mother. The petition also says Rhea also lied about her divorce to Sanjay Dutt to Leander and that it only came through in February 2008, when he had been led to believe in 2006 that Rhea was already divorced. According to an earlier piece in The Telegraph, which was published in 2008, it was reported that Dutt was paying Rhea’s mobile and shopping bills till the divorce was finalised, even though she had had a baby with Leander.