Advocate moves SC against Kangana Ranaut over ‘blasphemous’ social media posts

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 1

Alleging that actor Kangana Ranaut’s social media activities were intended to create law and order problems, a lawyer on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking censoring of her posts.

Petitioner advocate Charanjeet Singh Chanderpal alleged that her remarks and posts on social media “are not only outrageous and blasphemous but also intend to cause riots”.

He urged the Supreme Court to transfer all the cases filed against the actress over her remarks on farmers’ protest to Khar police station in Mumbai. He demanded that charge sheets be filed in a six months trial be concluded expeditiously in two years.

“The remarks are not only outrageous and blasphemous but also intend to cause riots, hurt religious sentiments; they are defamatory as well as portray Sikhs in a totally anti-national manner. It also justifies the innocent killing of Sikhs. The remarks are totally against the unity of our country and the actress deserves a serious punishment in law. They cannot be brushed aside or excused,” the petitioner submitted.

The advocate requested the top court to direct the Union Ministry of Home and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to take preventive measures with regard to her social media posts.

None of her posts on social media should be allowed without amendment, deletion, and modification or censoring in order to maintain law and order in the country, he submitted.

The petitioner alleged that her posts inferred that all Sikh farmers were separatists and aspirants of Khalistan. “Such kind of irresponsible statements can spread hatred amongst the Indians resulting in the disunity of the Country,” he submitted.