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Maria Susairaj, one of the main accused who walked free in the Neeraj Grover murder case has been in the news with Bollywood and Indian Television pursuing her. Buzz did the rounds that Susairaj has been approached to be a part of the controversial reality TV show, “Bigg Boss 5″. The TV channel, Colors, has however denied such a move.

The channel airing 'Bigg Boss' has dismissed speculation that Maria Susairaj, who walked out of jail after serving more than three years for the Neeraj Grover murder case, might participate in the fifth season of the reality show.

"There are numerous speculative stories on Maria Susairaj's participation in Bigg Boss 5. But we'd like to clarify that we have neither approached Maria nor will be doing so in future," said a spokesperson of Colors, which has aired four seasons of the show.

Speculations were rife that Susairaj, a Kannada actress, was likely to walk into the Bigg Boss house in the upcoming season.

Even filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has expressed his willingness to work with her.

Neither Susairaj, nor her lawyer Sharif Sheikh were available for comment.

Yesterday Susairaj had claimed here that she was innocent and the conviction was a "stigma" on her life.

"I know I am innocent and my God knows I am innocent," she had told a chaotic press conference marked by protests by a group of people led by filmmaker Ashok Pandit. "I desperately sympathise (with Neeraj's family) losing somebody. The whole scenario is sad," she had said.

On Neeraj's family blaming her for the crime, she had said, "I don't want to say anything about him or his family."

On Thursday, former Navy officer Emile Jerome and his girlfriend Susairaj were awarded rigorous imprisonment of 10 years and three years respectively by a Mumbai court in the sensational murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover.

According to the prosecution, Jerome had gone to Maria's residence in suburban Malad on May 7, 2008 where he got into a fight with Grover (26) during which the naval officer stabbed him to death. Susairaj and Jerome later cut Grover's body into pieces and disposed it in Manor forest in Thane.

Both the accused had been charged by the prosecution with murder, criminal conspiracy, common intention and causing disappearance of evidence.

Mumbai, July 3 (IANS) Television actress Ratan Rajput has finally chosen her Mr Right. Delhi-based Abhinav Sharma won her hand in Imagine TV’s ‘Swayamwar Season 3-Ratan Ka Rishta’.

The 26-year-old software engineer pipped Anupam Singh Kushwah, settled in Poland and Deepak Pandit of Jammu to win the swayamwar, in the presence of a number of guests from the television fraternity.

Just like Rakhi, the actress also revealed that she has just got engaged and they would like to spend some time with each other before getting into the institution of marriage.

‘The kind of life partner I had dreamt of…. Abhinav fits into it. During the show we, have discussed about leading a simple life and how would we be able to manage. So we have decided to just get engaged and spend sometime together and will get married in some time,’ said Ratan after choosing her groom. She was dressed in red and golden lehenga and sported kundan and polka jewellery.

Abhinav Sharma wins Ratan Rajput's Swayamvar. The wait finally ended for the three grooms who have been waiting for so many days to hear the wedding verdict by Ratan Rajpoot. Ratan has finally chosen Abhinav as her would be groom.

And this time, it's primetime heroine, Ratan Rajput who the channel is giving over in marriage. Swathed in yards of silk, zardosi and brocade, in elaborate hairdos and tons of jewellery, complete with maang tika and jhumkas, the emaciated Ratan,

Abhinav Sharma wins Ratan Rajput's Swayamvar. The wait finally ended for the three grooms who have been waiting for so many days to hear the wedding verdict by Ratan Rajpoot. Ratan has finally chosen Abhinav as her would be groom.

After the show was announced Ratan received a total of 54,863 wedding proposals, Out of those, 16 prospective grooms, mostly from small towns like Haridwar, Aligarh and Rishikesh but settled in metro cities or even abroad, have been selected for the show.

The show started off with 16 prospective grooms, which eventually came down to final. Ratan, popularly known as Laali of ‘Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo’, had previously said that she isn’t sure if she would marry on screen.

Hosted by Ram Kapoor, the guest list included Rahul and Dimpy Mahajan, Nausheen Ali Sardar, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Bigg Boss and Roadies winner Ashutosh Kaushik among others.