The Supreme Court has given temporarily protection to the filmmaker Leena Manimekalai from action on the basis of First Information Reports registered against her for depicting the Hindu Goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette in a poster of her upcoming film
The Allahabad High Court has refused to quash the First Information Report against the petitioner, observing that the defence of the accused cannot be looked into while considering the writ petition.
A single bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Kamlesh Yadav and Another directed its Registrar General to lodge a First Information Report in the matter.