The Rajasthan Top Court docket on Monday ordered police not to take any coercive motion in opposition to Bollywood movie director Prakash Jha over an FIR lodged in opposition to him allegedly for hurting Dalit sentiments by means of objectionable depiction of the group in his internet sequence Ashram. Jha has been given aid until the following listening to of his plea for quashing the FIR in opposition to him on the Luni police station in Jodhpur.

The Jodhpur bench of the Top Court docket which was once listening to the plea additionally issued notices to the complainant and the state govt in search of their replies to Jha’s plea inside six weeks. The complainant had objected to a scene within the first episode of the sequence through which some higher caste individuals are observed insuting and humiliating a Dalit group bridegroom pproceeding in his wedding ceremony procession on a horse. The complainant mentioned that scene now not handiest humiliates the Dalit group but additionally encourages abusive behaviour of the higher caste other folks. Within the FIR in opposition to Jha, stringent fees beneath the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 too had been invoked.

Jha’s recommend Nishant Bora argued that the police didn’t need to inoke sections beneath the SC/ST Act because it was once now not an actual case of somebody insulting somebody however handiest the portrayal of a fictional state of affairs.

Ashram sees actor Bobby Deol essay the position of a self-styled godman, convicted to existence imprisonment for raping a minor in his Ashram. Jha may be going through a 2nd plea through which he has been accused of injuring Hindu sentiments. The complainant argued that Bobby Deol’s personality as a rapist, corrupt and drug broker has hampered the picture and position of saints held by means of Hindus. The court docket, then again, has refused to direct police to record an FIR and as a substitute issued notices to Jha and Deol, in search of their replies to the allegations.

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