Kangana Ranaut claimed in court that these charges against her and her sister are baseless as none of her tweets provoked violence and were put up on her social media as her personal opinion.
Advocate Rizwan Siddique, representing kangana Ranaut, told the Bombay High Court bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale that the Bandra magistrate court had made a huge error in even allowing the registration of the FIR against the actor and her sister Rangoli Chandel in the first place.
“Even the sections invoked against me do not constitute any offense. None of my tweets have invoked any reactions from the public. They will not attract punishment as they were not followed by violence. What happened after the tweet? Was there any criminal act after my tweets?” said Kangana.
“There is absolute non-application mind in the courts order,” said Mr Rizwan Siddique representing Kangana Ranaut .
The FIR registered against Ranaut and Rangoli in October last year on the directions of the Magistrate’s Court, after, a casting director, and fitness trainer Munawar Ali Sayed filed a complaint against some tweets and statements made by Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel.
In his complaint to the Bandra Magistrate Court, Sayyed had claimed that Ranaut, through her tweets and television interviews, had constantly defamed the Bollywood industry by portraying Bollywood as a hub of nepotism, favoritism, drug addicts, communally-biased people, and murderers, etc.
The High Court will continue hearing on February 26th, protection from arrest granted to Ranaut and Chandel will continue till then.
Film industry mocked me, ganged up n still filing cases but i demolished them, they will never be able to recover from where I hit them, @Twitter bullied and suppressed me,it’s time is also up, with the power of honesty n strength of character an individual can challenge giants.
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) February 16, 2021
