On Thursday, October 3, sedition charges were slapped and FIRs filed against 49 filmmakers, artists and intellectuals who were signatories to an open letter written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July. Through the letter, the signatories, which includes the likes of Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Shubha Mudgal, Ramachandra Guha and Aparna Sen, intended to draw the attention of the PM to the growing number of mob lynchings and incidents of caste and religion-based discrimination in the country.
A court in Muzzaffarpur, Bihar, ordered filing of the FIR, following the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJI) Surya Kant Tiwari’s acceptance of a petition filed two months ago by local lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha. In his petition, Ojha accused all the signatories for having “tarnished the image of the country and undermining the impressive performance of the prime minister” along with “supporting secessionist tendencies”.
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On Thursday, October 3, sedition charges were slapped and FIRs filed against 49 filmmakers, artists and intellectuals who were signatories to an open letter written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July. Through the letter, the signatories, which includes the likes of Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Shubha Mudgal, Ramachandra Guha and Aparna Sen, intended to draw the attention of the PM to the growing number of mob lynchings and incidents of caste and religion-based discrimination in the country. A court in Muzzaffarpur, Bihar, ordered filing of the FIR, following the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJI) Surya Kant Tiwari’s acceptance of a petition filed two months ago by local lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha. In his petition, Ojha accused all the signatories for having “tarnished the image of the country and undermining the impressive performance of the prime minister” along with “supporting secessionist tendencies”.