A Mumbai court on Wednesday cancelled a bailable warrant issued against actor Malaika Arora in connection with the 2012 hotel brawl case involving Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, after she appeared before it. Arora was a prosecution witness in the case.

However, following her appearance, the prosecution informed the court that Arora was not supporting their case, leading to her being dropped as a witness.

The court had earlier issued a bailable warrant in April after Arora failed to appear for the recording of her testimony in the 13-year-old case, where Khan is accused of assaulting NRI businessman Iqbal Mir Sharma at a five-star hotel in Mumbai.

The incident allegedly took place on February 22, 2012, when Saif, along with actor-wife Kareena Kapoor, her sister Karishma Kapoor, Malaika Arora, her sister Amrita Arora, and other friends had gone out for dinner.

According to police, a confrontation began after Sharma objected to the loud conversation of Khan’s group. Saif allegedly punched Sharma in the nose, causing a fracture. Sharma also accused Khan and his friends of assaulting his father-in-law, Raman Patel, who was with him at the time.

Saif, then 41, and two of his friends were arrested but later granted bail.

Khan, for his part, has claimed that Sharma made abusive remarks toward the women in the group, which provoked the altercation.

Arora appeared before Chief Judicial Magistrate K.S. Zanwar (Esplanade Court) on Wednesday and filed an application seeking cancellation of the warrant. The court accepted the application.

The matter is now scheduled for further hearing on August 22.