Tandav case probe | U.P. Police arrives in Mumbai
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The four-member group is prone to file statements of the makers and forged and crew of the Amazon Prime Video’s sequence.
A four-member group of Uttar Pradesh Police arrived in Mumbai on Wednesday to conduct a probe right into a case registered in Lucknow towards controversial web series Tandav, an official stated on Wednesday.
The U.P. Police group is prone to file statements of the makers and forged and crew of the Amazon Prime Video’s sequence, which has been accused of injuring non secular sentiments for its depiction of Hindu deities.
The U.P. Police personnel reached Mumbai in the morning and visited the workplace of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detection-1) in suburban Andheri for help, the official stated.
Two members of the U.P. Police group additionally visited the Mumbai Police headquarters in south Mumbai in the afternoon.
While on the Mumbai Police headquarters, the U.P. Police personnel stated they’re getting cooperation from their counterparts right here and “there is no issue about it”.
“We had come to meet police officers at the headquarters, we are not authorised to speak,” an official from the U.P. Police group stated.
On Monday, U.P. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s media advisor Shalabhmani Tripathi stated the makers of Tandav should pay the value for hurting non secular sentiments.
He stated 4 members of the U.P. police have left for Mumbai for an in depth probe into the case, after an FIR was lodged towards the present on the Hazratganj police station.
“U.P. Police has left for Mumbai, that too in a car. There are strong sections in the FIR, remain prepared, will have to pay a price for hurting religious sentiments,” Mr. Tripathi stated in his tweet.
At least three FIRs have been lodged towards the makers and artists of Tandav in Uttar Pradesh – at Lucknow, Greater Noida and Shahjahanpur – for alleged inappropriate depiction of U.P. Police personnel, deities, and hostile portrayal of a personality taking part in Prime Minister in the present.
Tandav, a nine-episode political thriller starring Bollywood A-listers Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia and Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, began streaming final week.
At the centre of the row is a scene with Zeeshan Ayyub, in the position of school pupil Shiva, taking part in the Hindu god Mahadev in a theatre manufacturing.
As the controversy escalated, the present makers on Tuesday tried to defuse the state of affairs by asserting their determination to take away the controversial portion from the present.
The forged and crew of the present on Tuesday additionally stated that they had determined to implement modifications to “address concerns”.
In their second apology assertion in two days, the present’s group additionally thanked the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for its “guidance & support” in the matter.
