‘Smoking Kaali’ poster row: Uttar Pradesh Police books film-maker Leena Manimekalai

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: Amid widespread outrage over a poster of the documentary movie ‘Kaali’, that portrays a girl dressed as Goddess Kali smoking a cigarette, the Uttar Pradesh Police registered an FIR towards the filmmaker, the affiliate producer, and the editor underneath numerous sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and two sections of the IT (Amendment) Act 2008.

The UP police registered the FIR at Hazaratganj police station on the premise of the criticism submitted by advocate Ved Prakash Shukla towards film-maker Leena Manimekalai and two others on Tuesday.

The complainant acknowledged that the poster going viral on social media was resulting in unrest and harm to the non secular sentiments of a selected religion.

Others named within the FIR included movie producer Asha Associates and editor Shrawan Onachan. All three have been booked underneath the IPC sections 120-B, 153-B, 295, 295-A, 298, 504, 505 (1) (B), 505(2), pertaining to deliberate and malicious intention to outrage the non secular sentiment of a selected religion, prison conspiracy, offence within the place of worship, intention to impress breach of peace, stated Hazratganj Police station SHO Akhilesh Mishra. Besides, Section 66 and 67 of IT Act have been additionally invoked towards the filmmaker and two others.

In Canada, the Indian excessive fee within the North American nation requested authorities to take away the ‘disrespectful depiction of Hindu Gods’ from the Toronto-based Aga Khan Museum.