MUMBAI, Dec. 3 -- Businessman Deepak Kothari, who was allegedly duped of Rs.60.48 crore by actor Shilpa Shetty and her husband and businessman Raj Kundra, has filed an interim application in the Bombay High Court, claiming Shetty's signature on an affidavit submitted to the court in October was not genuine. The notary register, Kothari claimed, was signed by some third party. "A deponent not signing the notary register is a serious lapse that can render a document invalid and expose the notary to misconduct proceedings, as it violates the duty to verify the deponent's identity and the requirement to maintain proper records," Kothari stated in the interim application. Shetty and Kundra were booked by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police in August this year for allegedly cheating Kothari of Rs.60.48 crore. In the interim application, Kothari alleged that the couple was trying to "twist the suit according to their personal convenience as they are celebrities and consider themselves above the law". He urged the court to take their "misconduct" seriously and send a message to "such celebrities that the law is supreme and it cannot be trifled with". The application, filed through advocate Yusuf Iqbal, claimed Shetty had fabricated the public record. It urged the court to direct an enquiry against the couple for forging their signatures on the document. On Tuesday, the division bench of justices AS Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Raja Bhonsale directed Kothari's counsel to serve a copy of the application to Shetty and Kundra and posted the matter for next hearing after two weeks....