Sedition case | Bombay High Court grants Kangana Ranaut interim protection from arrest
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However, the Court directed Kangana Ranaut and her sister to look earlier than Mumbai Police on January 8.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim protection from arrest to actor Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel in reference to an FIR registered in opposition to them underneath sedition and different prices, however directed them to look earlier than Mumbai Police on January 8.
The FIR was registered pursuant to orders handed by the Bandra Justice of the Peace’s court docket in Mumbai directing the police to hold out an inquiry in opposition to Ranaut and her sister following a grievance lodged in opposition to them for allegedly “trying to create hatred and communal tension” via their social media posts.
A division Bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and M.S. Karnik was listening to a petition filed by Ranaut and her sister, searching for to quash the FIR and the October 17 order handed by the Justice of the Peace.
The court docket stated three summons have been issued by the police and the identical must be honoured. Ranaut and Chandel’s advocate Rizwan Siddiquee then assured the court docket that the sisters shall seem earlier than the Bandra police in Mumbai on January 8 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. for recording of their statements. The excessive court docket accepted the assertion.
“We are of the prima facie opinion that interim protection till the matter is heard at length deserves to be granted. The police shall not take any coercive action including arrest against the applicants (Ranaut and Chandel),” the Court stated.
The court docket additionally requested why sedition prices have been invoked within the case. “Why is the sedition section invoked? Why are we treating citizens of our country like this?” Justice Shinde stated.
The High Court stated it will take into account this problem at size on the following date. The court docket posted the plea for additional listening to on January 11.
The police have filed the FIR in opposition to Ranaut and her sister underneath IPC Sections 153-A (selling enmity between totally different teams on grounds of faith, race), 295-A (deliberate acts hurting non secular sentiments) and 124-A (sedition), 34 (frequent intention).
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