Kangana Ranaut Sedition Case: Counter Affidavit Filed Opposing Quashing Of FIR Filed By Kangana And Sister Rangoli In Bombay HC
A counter affidavit opposing the quashing of FIR against Kangana Ranaut and sister Rangoli in the sedition case has been filed in Bombay HC
For the past few months, Kangana Ranaut has been facing the wrath of people who have filed a sedition case against the actress and her sister Rangoli Chandel. The Ranaut sisters landed in legal trouble for spreading communal hatred between two religious groups via her social media posts. However later, the sisters moved the Bombay High Court seeking the dismissal of the case against them. And now here’s the latest update- the fitness trainer Munawar Ali Sayyed has now filed a counter-affidavit opposing the quashing of FIR against Kangana and sister Rangoli.
In his affidavit, Sayyed mentioned, “Through the Twitter messages both the Applicants have sought to generate, engineer and orchestrate a feeling of disaffection, hatred and enmity including disloyalty towards the Government of Maharashtra which is established by law in India. "Needless to say that circulation of such offensive tweets disclosing the intention and tendency of the applicants to create a situation of public order and also creating an environment of an environment prejudicial to public tranquillity amongst her 3 Million followers on her Twitter account was done with the obvious intention to bring the present government of Maharashtra into hatred, contempt as well as to excite or attempt to excite disaffection towards the said government.”
As per Live law portal, his affidavit further read, “Some of the tweets of the Petitioner are provocative and intended to reach a large segment of people on the social platform of Twitter account with the intention that such words used by her would lead to use criminal force and violence and knowing full well that the likely participants in such activity of criminal force and violence against any religion, race, language, regional group or caste and community for any reason whatsoever causes or is likely to cause fear, alarm and feeling of insecurity amongst such members of such religion, race, language, regional group or caste and community.”
“By no stretch of imagination can these tweets be termed as an expression of disapprobation and disapproval of the measures of the Government of Maharashtra with the view of obtaining their alteration by lawful means without exciting or attempting to excite hatred, contempt or disaffection," added the affidavit. (ALSO READ: Here's What Kangana Ranaut Has To Say About Journalist Arnab Goswami’s Leaked Chat Alleging She Was ‘Sexually Possessed With Hrithik Roshan’)
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