Updated: October 17, 2020 2:15:16 pm
Actress Kangana Ranaut with her sister Rangoli Chandel. [Instagram/Rangoli Chandel]
A metropolitan court in Bandra on Friday ordered an FIR against actress Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel based on a private complaint filed before it. The complaint claimed that Ranaut was “creating divisions between communities and spreading community hatred.”
“Upon a prima facie examination of the complaints and submissions… I discovered that the defendant had committed the recognizable crime. The total accusations are based on comments in electronic media: Twitter and interviews. The defendant used social networks such as Twitter. A thorough investigation is necessary on the part of the expert… in this case, the search and seizure is necessary, ”Metropolitan Magistrate Jaydeo Khule said in his order. He ordered the corresponding police station to investigate the complaint.
The complaint was filed by Munawwar Ali Sayyed, casting director and physical trainer, who presented to the court that Ranaut and Chandel had committed crimes under Sections 153A, 295A, 124 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code through their interviews and interviews. media accounts. The sections refer to promoting enmity between communities, deliberate and malicious acts that seek to outrage religious sentiments and sedition with common intent, respectively.
The whistleblower said that he had worked with eminent film directors and that for the past few months he had been observing on social media that Ranaut “continually vilifies the Bollywood film industry and presents the people who work on Bollywood films as a center of nepotism, favoritism, drug addicts, people with community prejudices, murderers, etc. ”Through his tweets and television interviews. “… (This) is creating a very bad image of Bollywood in people’s minds and even creating a division and rupture between the people of two communities and in the minds of the common man.”
The complaint also said a rift was being created between artists of different faiths. The complaint referred to several tweets by Ranaut in recent months, including a tweet referring to Mumbai as POK (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir). The complaint said it was misleading. “The police investigation is necessary to determine the real motive behind such hateful tweets and who are the people who support such hate to create tension and communal feelings against the government,” the complaint says.
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