Rohit Roy is smarting...(funny, considering it’s Dia Mirza whose bottom has been pinched!) since accusations of him having acted fresh with Dia started doing the rounds.

“I have been keeping quiet because I didn’t want to unnecessarily create a controversy. And since Dia hasn’t spoken in print about it, I thought it’d die a natural death,” he said.

But now that a fresh round of stories about Sanjay Gupta mediating between the two have cropped up, Roy decided that it was time he gave his side of the story.

“My wife was present at the place this incident is supposed to have happened. Am I a fool to pinch someone’s bottom when my wife is around? There were many people in the pool,” he said.

When asked if Dia accused him of bottom pinching, he confessed, “Yes, she did. I don’t know how she had this misunderstanding. I was trying to tell her that I didn’t do anything of that kind. We got into a huge argument about this and that’s when Gupta mediated. He said, ‘Please do not fight, you are co-stars and it’s not nice to do this.’ ”

Rohit says he has no idea why Dia zeroed in on him when there were many other people in the pool. “I have a daughter, why would I do anything of this sort? My reputation is at stake and I am not going to take this lying down,” he says. But if Rohit didn’t, who did? The other suspects (who were in the pool at that point) should own up. What say?