The Rajasthan High Court on Monday ordered police to not take any coercive action against Bollywood movie director Prakash Jha over an FIR lodged against him allegedly for hurting Dalit sentiments by objectionable depiction of the group in his web series Ashram. Jha has been given reduction until the subsequent listening to of his plea for quashing the FIR against him on the Luni police station in Jodhpur.
The Jodhpur bench of the High Court which was listening to the plea additionally issued notices to the complainant and the state authorities in search of their replies to Jha’s plea inside six weeks. The complainant had objected to a scene in the primary episode of the series in which some higher caste persons are seen insuting and humiliating a Dalit group bridegroom pproceeding in his wedding ceremony procession on a horse. The complainant stated that scene not solely humiliates the Dalit group but in addition encourages abusive behaviour of the higher caste folks. In the FIR against Jha, stringent prices beneath the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 too have been invoked.
Jha’s counsel Nishant Bora argued that the police did not have to inoke sections beneath the SC/ST Act because it was not an actual case of anybody insulting anybody however solely the portrayal of a fictional state of affairs.
Ashram sees actor Bobby Deol essay the position of a self-styled godman, convicted to life imprisonment for raping a minor in his Ashram. Jha can be dealing with a second plea in which he has been accused of wounding Hindu sentiments. The complainant argued that Bobby Deol’s character as a rapist, corrupt and drug seller has hampered the picture and place of saints held by Hindus. The court docket, nonetheless, has refused to direct police to file an FIR and as a substitute issued notices to Jha and Deol, in search of their replies to the allegations.
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