After the release of Mother India, Raaj Kumar was a overnight superstar sensation. One evening he and his friend director Prakash Aurora and his wife were out for a evening drive. Raaj Kumar pulled up to a local paan store to eat a paan. While standing there with his friend, a few men gathered around and started to heckle Raaj Kumar and bother him. Finally Raaj Kumar could not take it anymore and major fight broke out . At the end of it, one man lay dead and Raaj Kumar was arrested. The trial lasted a year and Raaj Kumar was acquitted of all charges. Raaj Kumar's police background was said to be one of the deciding factors that helped Raaj Kumar.