The Mumbai Police on Tuesday registered an FIR against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for allegedly using derogatory language against the Sikh community in a social media post.
The FIR was lodged at the suburban Khar police station a day after the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) submitted a complaint against the actor.
Ranaut has been booked under section 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and further investigation was underway.
The complainant in the case is Amarjeet Singh Sandhu, a Mumbai-based businessman who was part of a DSGMC delegation that submitted the complaint on Monday, reported PTI.
In his statement, Sandhu has accused the actor of making derogatory remarks against his community in a post on Instagram.
After submitting the complaint, the DSGMC delegation, led by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa met Maharashtra home minister Dilip Walse Patil and top officials of the Mumbai Police and demanded action against Ranaut.
“This act on her part is most degrading, disrespectful and contemptuous, which has hurt the sentiments of the Sikh community settled all over the world,” the statement read.
DSGMC also wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind urging him that the Padma Shri conferred on actor Kangana Ranaut be withdrawn as she was “spreading communal hatred, targeting a religious community, and insulting farmers and freedom fighters”.
In her post, the actor also made references to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
"Khalistani terrorists may be arm twisting the government today... But let’s not forget one woman... The only woman prime minister ne inn ko apni jooti ke neeche crush kiya tha (the only woman PM who crushed them under her shoes),” she had said
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