Kolkata police questions actor Mithun Chakraborty over ‘inciteful speech’
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Officers of the Manicktala police station in north Kolkata started questioning the actor, who’s presently in Pune, at 10.20 a.m.
The Kolkata police on Wednesday started nearly questioning actor-turned-BJP chief Mithun Chakraborty in reference to a grievance accusing him of inciting post-poll violence in West Bengal by means of his speeches.
Officers of the Manicktala police station in north Kolkata started questioning the actor, who’s presently in Pune, at 10.20 a.m.
“Till the last information was received, the questioning was still under way,” an officer advised PTI.
An FIR lodged on the police station alleged that the actor had used dialogues resembling ‘Marbo ekhane lash porbe shoshane’ [Will hit you here and the body will land in the crematorium] and ‘Ek chobole chobi’ [A snakebite will turn you into a photograph, meaning will kill you] at a rally in Kolkata after becoming a member of the BJP on March 7.
The complainant alleged that these dialogues triggered post-poll violence within the State.
The Calcutta High Court had directed Mr. Chakraborty to offer his e-mail handle to the State in order that he could make himself out there by means of video-conference for questioning in reference to the grievance the place he has been accused of selling enmity between completely different teams, an intentional insult to impress breach of peace, and making statements conducing to public mischief.
Clashes had been reported from a number of elements of the State following the declaration of Assembly ballot outcomes on May 2, through which the Trinamool Congress returned to energy for the third time.
On prayers by the attorneys of the petitioner and the prosecution on Friday for taking on the matter on a later date, the court docket mounted the matter for listening to on June 18.
Mr. Chakraborty had filed the petition earlier than the excessive court docket searching for quashing of the case registered in opposition to him for alleged incitement to post-poll violence by means of his speeches, whereby he had uttered common dialogues from his movies.
The actor had claimed that the utterances of such movie dialogues had been solely leisure and that he’s harmless and under no circumstances related with any offence as alleged by the complainant.
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