Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel have moved to the Supreme Court to request the transfer of the cases pending against them in Mumbai to a court in Shimla, claiming that their lives would be threatened if the trial proceeds there due to the personal revenge of the Shiv Sena leaders. Against them.
The actress and her sister said they fear that if the trial in these cases takes place in Mumbai, there would be a material threat to their life and property, as the Maharashtra government led by Shiv Sena has been harassing them.
The petitioners face a death threat if the trials continue in Mumbai, due to the personal revenge of the Shiv Sena leaders against the petitioner here, says the statement, recently filed through attorney Neeraj Shekhar.
The statement has sought the transfer of the FIR’s judgment and complaints registered against them, including a complaint case filed by veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar against Ranaut for defamation, from Mumbai to a competent court in Shimla in Himachal Pradesh.
He said Akhtar had filed a complaint against Ranaut for criminal defamation after the actress gave an interview to a news channel last year in which she spoke of a meeting with the lyricist in 2016.
Furthermore, he has sought the transfer of a Mumbai-hosted FIR by Ali Kashif Khan Deshmukh which is related to Chandel’s tweet in which he expressed his distress over the attack on doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He later said that Chandel’s Twitter account was suspended after which Ranaut had spoken out in a social media video against him.
The statement said that Khan had filed an FIR against Ranaut and Chandel for the alleged offenses under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 295A, which deals with deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious sentiments of any kind. .
He said that the same complainant had also filed a complaint with the Metropolitan Magistrate, Andheri, against the petitioners.
Multiple proceedings on the same cause of action clearly demonstrate how said whistleblower is only trying to harass the petitioners in this document, the statement alleges.
The motive has also sought the transfer of an FIR presented by a certain Munawar Ali for the alleged crimes of sedition against him.
It is pertinent to mention that all the FIRs and complaints in question are frivolous and have been presented with the malicious intention of harassing the petitioners at present and defame their public image, it is alleged in the allegation.
While the petitioners have the highest respect for the country’s courts and are ready to face trial in accordance with the law, but fear that if trials take place in Mumbai, there will be a material threat to life and property. of the petitioners here. He said, adding: It is pertinent to mention that the Maharashtra government led by Shiv Sena has been harassing the petitioners in this document.
He said that in September last year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had illegally demolished a part of Ranaut’s Pali Hill bungalow.
The statement later said, the Bombay High Court had declared the BMC act illegal.
These acts of the Government of Maharashtra clearly show that the Government of Maharashtra has bad intentions against the petitioners in this document and that if the petitioners visit Maharashtra to attend such trials, there will be a constant threat to them from the government of Shiv Sena and Maharashtra. , he claimed. .
The statement also mentioned that, upon observing Ranaut’s perception of threat, the Ministry of the Interior granted him the Y-plus category of CRPF security.
Therefore, it becomes quite evident that the petitioners face serious threats to life and property and if the trial of the cases is not transferred out of Mumbai, the petitioners’ lives will be at risk, he said while seeking their transfer cases from Mumbai to Shimla.
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