SC declines interim protection from arrest to makers of web series Tandav, others
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Besides looking for quashing of the FIRs, the pleas have sought clubbing of FIRs.
The Supreme Court Wednesday declined to grant interim protection from arrest to Ali Abbas Zafar, Director of web series ”Tandav”, and others looking for quashing of FIRs towards them for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments of Hindus and issued notices Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and different states on their pleas.
A bench comprising justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah was listening to as many as three separate petitions of Zafar, Amazon Prime India head Aparna Purohit, producer Himanshu Mehra, the present’s author Gaurav Solanki and actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub.
Besides looking for quashing of the FIRs, the pleas have sought clubbing of FIRs.
The bench has sought responses from states akin to UP, MP, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Bihar and Delhi on the pleas.
“Tandav”, a nine-episode political thriller starring Bollywood A-listers Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia and Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, began streaming just lately.
