By numerous press accounts, Zeenat was assaulted during a relationship with a married actor — widely named in reports as Sanjay Khan — in an attack said to have left her with a permanent eye injury.
In 1979 Zeenat Aman was reportedly assaulted by a man she was involved with — widely identified in the press as the married actor Sanjay Khan — in an incident said to have taken place in a hotel. Many accounts describe a severe beating that left her with a lasting injury to one eye.
Zeenat has spoken in later years about surviving a violent relationship, and the episode is treated in mainstream retrospectives as a defining, painful chapter of her life. It is presented here as widely reported rather than adjudicated; she continued to work through the aftermath.
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