Javed Akhtar's defamation suit to FIR for 'spreading communal hate' — the 8 cases against Kangana Ranaut

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Chandigarh: Actor Kangana Ranaut, the BJP candidate from the Mandi parliamentary constituency of Himachal Pradesh, has eight criminal cases pending against her..

While charges have been framed against Ranaut in Andheris 10th metropolitan magistrate court for alleging Akhtar threatened her with consequences for her words against actor Hrithik Roshan, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has been hearing Ranauts petition for quashing an FIR lodged over her alleged social media post comparing Mahinder Kaur with the Dadi at Shaheen Bagh..

Apart from these three cases, there is a copyright infringement case against Ranaut by author Ashish Kaul in Mumbai, and a police complaint in Karnataka seeking an FIR against the actor for her alleged anti-farmer posts on X...

Khan, metropolitan magistrate, 10th court, Andheri, passed his order in Akhtars case, seeking the issuance of the process for criminal defamation against Kangana Ranaut under IPC sections 499 and 500..

On 9 October 2020, a judicial court in Karnataka ordered an FIR against Ranaut for an X (then Twitter) post on 21 September that year after advocate Ramesh Naik filed a complaint, alleging her post had a clear intention to injure the people opposing the farm laws, wantonly giving provocation, with intent to cause riots...

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