Image Source : INSTAGRAM/PRIMEVIDEOIN SC to listen to pleas of Tandav director, actors and others looking for quashing of FIRs
The Supreme Court is scheduled to listen to on Wednesday a batch of pleas looking for quashing of prison complaints lodged in varied states in opposition to Ali Abbas Zafar, the Director of internet sequence ”Tandav”, and others for allegedly hurting the non secular sentiments of Hindus. Besides Zafar, Amazon Prime India head Aparna Purohit, producer Himanshu Mehra, the present”s author Gaurav Solanki and actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub have filed three separate petitions in opposition to the registration of FIRs in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
A bench comprising justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah would hear the petitions in opposition to the FIRs.
Earlier, the Bombay High Court had granted a transit pre-arrest bail to Zafar, Purohit, Mehra and Solanki in opposition to whom a case was registered in Lucknow for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments via the net sequence.
The 4 have been booked in Lucknow underneath sections 153 A (selling enmity between totally different teams on grounds of faith, race and so forth), 295 (injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the faith of any class), 501 (1)(B) (public mischief with intent to trigger worry or alarm) of the IPC and underneath related sections of the Information Technology Act.
At least three FIRs have been lodged in opposition to the makers and artistes of “Tandav” in Uttar Pradesh – at Lucknow, Greater Noida and Shahjahanpur – for the alleged inappropriate depiction of UP Police personnel, deities, and hostile portrayal of a personality taking part in the function of prime minister within the present.
Similar FIRs have been lodged in opposition to folks related to the making and airing of the net sequence in states like MP, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The pleas have made varied state governments and cops as events.
“Tandav”, a nine-episode political thriller starring Bollywood A-listers Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia and Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, began streaming just lately.
