FIR lodged against the celebs who wrote an open letter to PM Modi on mob-lynching.
The FIR has been lodged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including those relating to sedition, public nuisance, hurting religious feelings and insulting with an intent to provoke breach of peace.
Approximately 50 celebrities have come under the scanner as an FIR has been lodged against them in Bihar. It has been filed against filmmaker Mani Ratnam, Ramchandra Guha, Aparna Sen, and many others, who had written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. All of them had raised concerns over the growing number of mob-lynching. The petition was filed by local advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha on August 20 and the moment Chief Judicial Magistrate Surya Kant Tiwari accepted the same, FIR was lodged against the eminent personalities. According to Ojha, these personalities allegedly tried to tarnish the image of the country and undermined the impressive performance of the Prime Minister.
As per Police, the FIR has been lodged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including those relating to sedition, public nuisance, hurting religious feelings and insulting with an intent to provoke breach of peace. The letter was written by Mani Ratnam, Anurag Kashyap, Shyam Benegal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Shubha Mangal and many others, in July this year.
A part of that open letter read, “The lynching of Muslims, Dalits and other minorities must be stopped immediately. We were shocked to learn from the NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) reports that there have been no less than 840 instances of atrocities against Dalits in the year 2016, and a definite decline in the percentage of convictions. What action has actually been taken against the perpetrators? We strongly feel that such offenses should be declared non-bailable, and that exemplary punishment should be meted out swiftly and surely. If life imprisonment without parole can be the sentence in cases of murder, why not for lynching, which are even more heinous? No citizen should have to live in fear in his/her own country.”
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