FIR registered against Bollywood celebrities who wrote open letter to Modi

October 4, 2019

A case has been registered in India’s eastern territory of Bihar against 49 Indian big names, who had composed an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over occurrences of mob lynching in the nation. The (FIR) was held up after a request was passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate Surya Kant Tiwari on August 20, on an appeal documented by nearby backer Sudhir Kumar Ojha. The case was submitted at Muzaffarpur’s Sadar police headquarters on Thursday. “These individuals were in charge of defaming the picture of our nation. They can’t carry on along these lines with the head administrator of our nation,” Ojha disclosed to Anadolu Agency on Friday. As per the Press Trust of India news office, the body of evidence was enlisted against 49 signatories of the letter in which the request said they “discolored the picture of the nation and undermined the dazzle execution of the head administrator” other than “supporting secessionist propensities”. The police said the FIR was stopped under areas of the Indian Penal Code — including those identifying with subversion, open annoyance, offending and offending with a purpose to incite rupture of harmony, as indicated by the report. The big names in July had featured that ‘Jai Shri Ram’ (hail Lord Rama) has turned into a “provocative call to arms” in the present day that prompts peace issues, and “numerous lynchings happen in its name”. “The lynching of Muslims, Dalits [the most reduced cost in India] and different minorities must be halted right away. We were stunned to gain from the National Crime Records Bureau reports that there have been no under 840 examples of barbarities against Dalits [lower Hindu caste] in the year 2016, and an unequivocal decrease in the level of feelings,” the letter had said. Upwards of 49 famous people — including artist Shubha Mudgal, entertainer Konkona Sen Sharma and producers Shyam Benegal, Anurag Kashyap, and Mani Ratnam — had marked the letter. “It is stunning that so much brutality ought to be executed for the sake of religion! These are not the Middle Ages! The name of Ram (Hindu God) is hallowed to numerous in the dominant part network of India. As the most noteworthy Executive of this nation, you should put a stop to the name of Ram being debased as such,” they had said in the letter.

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