KRK, a well-known actor and producer, was arrested in Mumbai due to a contentious tweet from 2020. Following his arrival at the Mumbai Airport, KRK was detained. According to Mumbai Police, he would be presented before Borivali Court today.
Although it was not immediately known for which tweet the actor was detained, an FIR was filed against him for posting disparaging comments on social media in 2020 against the late stars Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor. Rahul Kanal, a member of the Yuva Sena core committee, filed the FIR after becoming aware of the actor’s offensive comments.
According to a PTI report citing a police officer, Khan announced Rishi Kapoor’s hospitalisation on Twitter on April 30 and urged the actor not to pass away because wine stores were about to open. He also made disparaging remarks against Irrfan Khan a day before his death on April 29.
“We have registered an FIR against Kamal R Khan for making derogatory remarks about both the deceased actors under section 294 (punishment for obscene acts or words in public) and other provisions of the IPC,” PTI had quoted a senior police official as saying.
Less than 24 hours after Irrfan Khan, who was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour in 2018, passed away from a colon infection on April 29, veteran actor Rishi Kapoor passed away from leukaemia.
