Bangalore:
A Karnataka court ordered an FIR report or first information report against actress Kangana Ranaut for her tweet in which she criticized protests against the Center’s agricultural laws. The Tumakuru district took the action based on a complaint from a lawyer.
“The office is hereby ordered to send intimidation to the circle police inspector of the Kyathasandra police station together with (a) photocopy of the complaint for his report,” the court ordered.
The lawyer, L Ramesh Naik, told the PTI news agency that the court had ordered the jurisdictional police station to register an FIR and investigate the case.
Ms. Ranaut, a staunch supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP, had claimed that misinformation about farm laws sparked protests in various parts of the country and those who allowed the act were terrorists.
“The people spreading misinformation and rumors about the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) that caused riots are the same people who are now spreading misinformation about the Farmers bill and causing terror in the nation, they are terrorists,” he tweeted. September 21.
More than 50 people were killed in violence in northeast Delhi in February, following weeks of protests against CAA.
While those protesting the CAA had said that it discriminated against the Muslim community, the Center had maintained that its motive was to grant citizenship to marginalized minorities.
Ms Ranaut has been in the headlines in recent months, as she has taken on Bollywood, the Mumbai police and the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government over the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
His office was demolished by the Mumbai Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation after bitter exchanges with Shiv Sena leaders over their comment on comparing the capital of Maharashtra with Pakistani-occupied Kashmir. He had approached the Bombay High Court to ask that the demolition be declared illegal and the court order BMC to pay his 2 million rupees in damages.
Last week, the Bombay High Court closed all arguments and reserved its verdict on Ms. Ranaut’s petition against demolition.
With PTI inputs
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