'Bigg Boss' famed Gauhar Khan slapped during TV show

E-Paper | May 04, 2026

KARACHI: ‘Bigg Boss, season seven’ famed Indian model and actor Gauhar Khan was slapped while she was hosting a television show, the Times of India said in a report published on Monday.

During the show, a 24-year-old man among audience misbehaved with her and later slapped her, saying she wore immodest outfits "despite being a Muslim woman".

Security guards apprehended the 24-year-old Aqil Malik and handed him over to the police.

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Gauhar Khan, the younger sister of Indian actor Nighar Khan, had won the season seven of reality show ‘Bigg Boss’ in 2013. The popular show is being run by Bollywood star Salman Khan for several years.

She had also performed in a movie titled ‘Miss India: The Mystery’. Gauhar Khan has established her fame for item songs, apart from being a model.

A case has been registered against Aqil Malik for attacking the actor.

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Mukhtar Naqvi

Dec 02, 2014 06:01am

Religion is completely a personal thing, one should not try to impose once preference on others.

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KArim

Dec 02, 2014 06:12am

Who cares?

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Ranveer Singh Warraich

Dec 02, 2014 06:13am

This man is behind bars! We will not tolerate this !

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indian

Dec 02, 2014 06:17am

i support Gauhar Khan.

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Harish Chandra

Dec 02, 2014 06:21am

Why does everyone want to the moral gate-keeper for their religion? Every individual should have the authority to dress the way one wants as long as it is not breaking the law of the country.

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Ash

Dec 02, 2014 06:22am

Who can educate and groom these men?

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Tanveer

Dec 02, 2014 06:41am

Our Boys have influenced them too.Keep it up,the SAD has started (self automated destruction).

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Gaurav Arya

Dec 02, 2014 06:53am

So many Thekaydars in Islamic world. Very sad.

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raj

Dec 02, 2014 07:43am

5 yrs in prison will do this vermin a whole lot of good.

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Vasan

Dec 02, 2014 07:43am

This should be treated as serious violation against women freedom, should be stopped at this point. I hope women rights commission take up this case and the culprit should be brought to justice. This is sad day for India's women's freedom of expression. She is an artist, and she have every freedom in a country like India. Painting religious motive on an artist is going to have dangerous backlash in the free society. All artists from Cinema, Stage and TV should condemn this act. We are not living in the 13th century. We are going ahead with 21st century where everyone have a freedom and to be respected. We have a voice from India for Veena Malik too, she should be freed as well. Dark society imprisoned the artists first. We don't want dark society anymore.

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sudhakar

Dec 02, 2014 08:10am

Gosh! ISIS mentality creeping into even a secular country like India.

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Rahul

Dec 02, 2014 08:47am

There are sick people everywhere!

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Rizwan

Dec 02, 2014 09:20am

Damn, and i thought crazed deranged mullas were a thing only in pakistan.... guess india and pakistan ar'nt that different after all!!

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Dixit

Dec 02, 2014 09:32am

Being a muslim man will do everything but being a muslim woman will not do anything.

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Dec 02, 2014 10:03am

It is SAD that it is happening in secular India. The GOI should take stringent actions against the so called religios thekedar otherwise in future it will turn India into terrorist land.

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Rana

Dec 02, 2014 10:05am

What he was doing overthere??

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Johnny Walker

Dec 02, 2014 10:07am

Sir how can she slap?

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parameswaran.ns

Dec 02, 2014 10:08am

@Rizwan We have the same DNA. A few of you separated and thought that it is a different country!!! Separation does not make one different.

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Noman Latif

Dec 02, 2014 10:10am

well I dont think its about religion. This man must have had some differences or connection with Gauhar, otherwise he wouldn't have been sitting in her show in the first place, if he was that religious.

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Sandeep Singh

Dec 02, 2014 10:13am

@Rizwan Yeah muslims are same everywhere in the world. India and Pakistan are just divided land otherwise everything is same about Muslims.

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Gp65

Dec 02, 2014 10:23am

@Rizwan "Damn, and i thought crazed deranged mullas were a thing only in pakistan.... guess india and pakistan ar'nt that different after all!!" Crazies are everywhere. Even some of our khap panchayats are equally absurd. The difference is in reaction of media, civil society and law enforcement which supports the victim and not the aggressor.

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mkike

Dec 02, 2014 10:24am

Is this important enough to have made place on the front page? What has happened to media.

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Prashant

Dec 02, 2014 10:27am

This guy is seriously done for life. You slap Sharad Pawar you are a hero you slap Gauhar Khan for being what she is you are done.

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Ali

Dec 02, 2014 10:29am

Why each and every Muslim in showbiz industry in India has to have KHAN as their last name?

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Muzaffar oklahoma

Dec 02, 2014 10:44am

This guy is just a typical pervert and believes in violence against against women.Jail and shame him and his likes.

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Manish Pandey

Dec 02, 2014 11:18am

@Ali Prior to Independence Khan's (Pathan) were enjoying respect in all over India they were in Army, they were in business,associates of Maharaja's . All influential elites in indian cities had pathan's as guards. Still we have in memory Tagores story Kabuliwala ... Salman Khan's great grandfather were migrant from Afghanistan and part of one of Hindu Army fought with Mughal forces.

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IBN E ASHFAQUE

Dec 02, 2014 11:33am

@sudhakar It creeped into India via RSS many many years ago.

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ROBIN- New Delhi

Dec 02, 2014 11:33am

Publicity Stunt in the name of religion, that's what is happening around the world,i don't understand why sane people can't come join hands and get rid of such so called religious keepers, 100 years from now our future generations will laugh on us thinking how could we let these people flourishing despite humans conquering space....

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rjk

Dec 02, 2014 11:39am

first thing is why that narrow minded guy came for such show.....

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Moiz Omar

Dec 02, 2014 12:09pm

Regardless of your personal opinion on how other people dress, no one has the right to assault anyone like this!

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Imran Shah

Dec 02, 2014 12:17pm

liberals and religious people can say all yell all they want, to me her reaction was priceless, still better than indian dramas absolutely hilarious n extremely entertaining

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Imran Shah

Dec 02, 2014 12:19pm

And by the way let's face it, who really cares if she got slapped, does any single of you care? please don't lie we all know that we are only pretending that it's sad while we secretly admiring the entermainment it brought

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ROBIN- New Delhi

Dec 02, 2014 12:30pm

@IBN E ASHFAQUE But it was later controlled in India, talk about yourself.....

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Anwar

Dec 02, 2014 01:05pm

Any body has no right to slap a woman. Who is she yours. Be a man.

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Sohan

Dec 02, 2014 01:13pm

@rjk Such type of people would have even raped her, had gotten a chance. Sick people, Gauhar Khan's husband and family does not have problem but sick people like him have problem

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Ample reverence for Saudis

Dec 02, 2014 01:18pm

@Mukhtar Naqvi How?

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ProudtobeanINDIAN

Dec 02, 2014 01:23pm

What is the difference between a guys leg and girls leg... Change the mindset and do not always think about s e x ... there is a scene in Burfi where Ranbir Kapoor shows his leg to a person who was staring at Priyanka Chopra's leg... People's mindset should change... We all have same skin, flesh and if men can wear trousers and women can also wear trousers...

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Ample reverence for Saudis

Dec 02, 2014 01:24pm

My salute and Hats off to you young man but such ignorant so called Muslims can not be halt of imitating blindly the western and Indian cultures. They have forgotten entirely the robust Muslim culture and are the stigmas on Muslims. As they sow so shall they reap! So let them sow.

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Muhammad Junaid Ali

Dec 02, 2014 01:44pm

I believe there are so many losers in every religion who when failed in life to get cheap attention tries to do these things. They know that will get sympathies from few idiots an nuts. I believe before handing over to police the public would have washed him with Excel Surf blended with hundreds or slaps and kicks. Islam has no place for those who try to take judgement in their hands and try to be the Godfather of this religion. So it means that if you are Muslim you are a disadvantage that you can not live a life of your choice. Definitely not. When you pray .. only God knows what is in your heart. Religion purely a faith thing and not in beards or Hijabs... it is in nice and kind actions. I hope Police will do a lot of justice to him so that no one dare do this again.

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Mamata_Begam

Dec 02, 2014 03:41pm

That would be stupidest way to go to prison. Enjoy the life behind bars.

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bonkers

Dec 02, 2014 03:41pm

@indian this is one off incident..dnt go deep. .Indian Muslim youth is education oriented..with forward thinking even though they wil follow their religion with enthusiasm.

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Kranti

Dec 02, 2014 03:49pm

@rjk I think he has deliberately come to the show, to slap this girl.

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akbar

Dec 03, 2014 11:29am

@Ali ask fawad.

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rehan

Dec 03, 2014 01:35pm

@parameswaran.ns Same DNA ? So now when it come to this , we have "same DNA" ? You Indians are forever telling the world about how advanced and superior Indian race is . Whatever happened to that claim ?

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rebel

Dec 03, 2014 05:03pm

@Ali ever heard of emran hashmi or ali fazal?

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Salman

Dec 03, 2014 10:35pm

To the person who slapped this actress: If you are so perturbed by her dress the best way is not watch her. Problem solved. No need to get flabbergasted over the issue.

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itrat

Dec 03, 2014 11:53pm

@Harish Chandra Support it on times of india .that man is behind bars. Let the court decide his punishment.

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PatakaGuddi

Dec 04, 2014 04:06am

I'd just like to point out that Bigg Boss isn't "run" by Salman Khan. He hosts it.

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NASAH (USA)

Dec 04, 2014 04:17am

Why the lady didn't slap back is my surprise.

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Ganga Din

Dec 04, 2014 07:03am

@NASAH (USA) : Then she wouldn't be getting the TV coverage.

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Salim Alvi

Dec 04, 2014 09:17am

@Manish Pandey Real and original Khans are reverting back to their Dharmik way, albeit Art of Living and Boudhism. 2/3rd of Mongolia does Art of Living's Sudarshan Kriya. Even Mongolian Army recruit has to attend compulsory Sudarshan Kriya Course. Wana be everything but not native desi Khans took that last name to curry favors (millions of acres of land as Watan) from the alien barbarian rulers. Today they are trying to be more Anglo/Umriki than Angloes/Americans in dress and dancing. Real Mongolian Khans are learning Bharat Natyams and know that their KungFu or Karate has roots in Indian martial dance/art.

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usman

Dec 04, 2014 11:11am

Everybody is wasting his time to comment on this article which is not too important. Also hopeless DAWN which is publishing this news. There is no news about brave woman in German who died after trying to save two girls who were being harassed by a group of boys.

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saurabh singh

Dec 04, 2014 11:51am

the dresses worn by girls may not be liked by many in india, but it does not mean they should become violent and do moral policing. This is highly unacceptable and should be punishable to deter further such instances. The offenders should realize that the dresses not only worn by women but also by men has changed a lot since last 20, 30, 50 , 80 years. Hence what may not be acceptable 30 years back is a realty now and Film Personalities normally are the trend setters of Indian dressing sense.

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sanjay

Dec 04, 2014 03:36pm

@Ali Because most of the Khans have come and settled down in Mumbai from frontier and Afghanistan since the British time. They came as traders and are an integral part of the Mumbai society. Some of course came later to join the film industry from other parts of the country. Khans in fact are found all across India since hundreds of years. Khan is one of the most common surname among Muslims in India.

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