Mumbai Police has booked Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for putting objectionable posts on her Instagram profile allegedly linking the Sikh community to Khalistanis. The actor had put out the post when farmers protesting the now to-be-repealed farm laws comprised a vast majority of Sikh farmers from Punjab and elsewhere.
The FIR was registered at Khar Police Station on the complaint by Amarjit Singh, Kulwant Singh Sandhu, Manjinder Singh Sirsa and Jaspal Singh Siddhu, who were part of committees of various gurdwaras in Mumbai and Delhi. The FIR comes a day after the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) demanded immediate arrest of Ranaut for her alleged anti-Sikh remarks. On Monday, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) had submitted a complaint in Mumbai seeking an FIR against Kangana Ranaut.
In the Instagram story, the actor stated, including the translation of her Hindi sentences:
“Khalistani terrorists may be arm twisting the government today. But let’s not forget one woman. The only woman prime minister [Indira Gandhi] who crushed them under the shoe. No matter how much suffering she caused to this nation, she crushed them like mosquitoes at the cost of her own life. Even decades after her death…they still shiver on hearing her name…they need gurus like her.”
The FIR states that the above statements have insulted the Sikh religion, the Sikh faith and insulted the beliefs of followers of the religion.