The Bollywood actor Mallika Sherawat was punched in the face and sprayed with teargas by masked attackers in an upmarket area of Paris, police have said. The 40-year-old star and her partner were attacked by three masked men who tried to steal her handbag. However, investigators said they were mystified that although the attackers had tried to take Sherawat’s handbag, they had fled empty-handed. “We cannot understand why the attackers fled without taking anything,” a source in the investigation told AFP. Sherawat, whose real name is Reema Lamba, came to prominence in 2004 thanks to a film that helped bust taboos around sex in the conservative Indian film industry.

Source: The Guardian November 17, 2016 17:31 UTC