Varanasi court accepts complaint against Kamal Haasan for his ‘Hindu terror’ remark and orders to lodge FIR.

Chandrabhan Tiwari | HENB | Varanasi | Nov 4, 2017:: A Varanasi court has ordered an FIR against Tamil actor Kamal Haasan for his write up on ‘Hindu Terror’. The order came after Kamlesh Chand Tripathi, who is a Varanasi-based lawyer filed a case against actor on November 3 after Haasan alleged that right wing Hindu leaders have started employing terrorism to propagate their communal agenda. In his column in a Tamil magazine which hit the stands on November 2, the 62-year-old actor said that “the right-wingers could no longer say show me a Hindu terrorist if you can and terrorism has also spread into their fold too”.

The court of additional chief judicial magistrate-VI on Saturday accepted the complaint filed by a local lawyer K C Tripathi against actor Kamal Haasan for his remark on alleged “Hindu terror”.

The court ordered to file the case as a complaint and asked the pleading lawyer to get his statement recorded with the court on November 22.

On Friday Tripathi, turned up before the court with his complaint and appealed initiating action against Haasan under sections 500 (defamation), 511 (punishable offence), 298 (deliberate intent to wound religious belief), 295(A) (insulting religious belief) and 505C (incite to commit offence against other class/community) of Indian Penal Code.

Tripathi alleged that by ascribing terrorism to Hinduism, the actor had hurt his sentiments. Terming it an offence, the lawyer appealed to the court to summon Haasan and punish him.

Kamal Haasan should be shot dead: Hindu Mahasabha leader.

IANS | Lucknow | Nov 4, 2017:: A senior leader of a Hindu outfit — Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha — on Friday slammed veteran Tamil actor Kamal Haasan for his “Hindu terror” remarks and said people like him should be “shot dead”.

Referring to the statement made by Haasan on Thursday in a column in a weekly magazine, Mahasabha leader Pt. Ashok Sharma said these people accused the followers of Hinduism of Hindu terror only to “push their own biased communal agenda”.

“There is no other way to handle people like Kamal Haasan but to either hang them or shoot them dead,” he said.

Angered by the uncharitable remarks of Kamal Haasan, Sharma — the national Vice President of the Hindu group — said that people who used such language or were so biased against the Hindu religion and its faithfuls had no right to live.

Members of the Mahasabha have also announced to boycott all films of the 62-year-old actor and all actors from his family, including his daughter Shruti Haasan, who acts in Hindi films. The outfit has also exhorted others to follow the suit and boycott films of such artistes.

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__TNIE.