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LUCKNOW: Amid common outrage over a poster of the documentary movie ‘Kaali’, that portrays a girl dressed as Goddess Kali smoking a cigarette, the Uttar Pradesh Police registered an FIR towards the filmmaker, the affiliate manufacturer, and the editor below quite a lot of sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and two sections of the IT (Modification) Act 2008.
The UP police registered the FIR at Hazaratganj police station at the foundation of the grievance submitted by way of recommend Ved Prakash Shukla towards film-maker Leena Manimekalai and two others on Tuesday.
The complainant mentioned that the poster going viral on social media was once resulting in unrest and harm to the spiritual sentiments of a selected religion.
Others named within the FIR incorporated movie manufacturer Asha Pals and editor Shrawan Onachan. All 3 were booked below the IPC sections 120-B, 153-B, 295, 295-A, 298, 504, 505 (1) (B), 505(2), bearing on planned and malicious aim to outrage the spiritual sentiment of a selected religion, prison conspiracy, offence within the position of worship, aim to impress breach of peace, mentioned Hazratganj Police station SHO Akhilesh Mishra. But even so, Phase 66 and 67 of IT Act had been additionally invoked towards the filmmaker and two others.
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