TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ An FIR was lodged in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur on Thursday against nearly 50 celebrities, including Ramchandra Guha, Mani Ratnam and Aparna Sen, who had written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising concern over the growing incidents of mob lynching, police said.
The case was lodged after an order was passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate Surya Kant Tiwari two months ago on a petition filed by local advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha. “The CJM had passed the order on August 20, accepting my petition upon the receipt of which an FIR was lodged today at the Sadar police station here,” Ojha said.
He
said nearly 50 signatories of the letter were named as accused in his petition
in which they allegedly “tarnished the image of the country and undermined
the impressive performance of the prime minister” besides “supporting
secessionist tendencies”. The police said the FIR was lodged under
sections of the Indian Penal Code, including those relating to sedition, public
nuisance, hurting religious feelings and insulting with an intent to provoke
breach of peace.
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