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A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court against actor Kangana Ranaut, urging the Court to censor all future social media posts by her "in order to maintain law and order situation" in the country.

The plea is moved by one Sardar Charanjeet Singh Chanderpal who has sought for an order to transfer all pending FIRs registered against Ranaut across India to Khar Police Station in Mumbai.

The petitioner has further sought that chargesheets in all these cases must be submitted in six months and that the trial be completed in two years.

The petitioner has averred in the plea that,

“The Ministry of Home along with the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) along with the respective State Police Authorities of different states can take common action to take preventive action on social media against Kangana Rangaut i.e and none of her posts on social media should be allowed without amendment, deletion, modification or censoring inorder to maintain law and order in the country.”

The actress had recently on her Instagram handle posted on the recent farm laws. The petitioner claimed that the post was an irrelevant reference "to protest as a Khalistani arm twisting tactic."

The plea mentioned the remarks made by the actress as cited below,

"Khalistani Terrorists may be arm twisting the Government today, but let's not forget one woman, the only woman Prime Minister ne inko apni jooti ke neeche crush kiya, no matter how much suffering she caused to the nation, she crushed them like mosquitoes at the cost of her own life, lekin Desh ke tukde nahi hone diye. Even after decades of her death, aaj bhi uske naam se kaapte hain yeh, inko vaise hi Guru Chahiye."

The petitioner alleges in his plea that the above meant that, “the Sikh Protestors of the Farmer Protestors (which includes all communities and religions headed by Mr Tikait, who is a Hindu) are Khalistani Terrorists and they (meaning Sikhs) were crushed like mosquitoes. Referring to the Genocide of Sikhs in 1984, which has been decried and denounced globally, the said Kangna Ranaut has seemingly justified their killing by saying that it was a justified move. And that it was necessary to maintain the unity of the country. By this, she has tried to distinguish Sikhs as anti-Indian and anti-Nationals.”

The plea mentioned that the remarks made by Ranaut were not only outrageous and blasphemous but also intended to cause riots, hurt religious sentiments. They were defamatory as well as portray Sikhs in an anti-national manner.

He alleges that the post also justified the killing of innocent Sikhs.

He states that the remarks are "against the unity of our country" and says that the actress deserves a serious punishment in law.

It is stated in the plea that the Khalistan issue started in 1947 and due to political mismanagement burst up in 1984 and died a slow death thereafter.

"One cannot league all Sikhs as separatists and Khalistani in an issue of Farmer Laws, which even Supreme Court of India stayed and even the Prime Minister of India WITHDREW," he says.

He further contends that,

“Where is the question of getting Indira Gandhi into this and she treating Sikhs like mosquitoes, when the constitutional validity is/ was under question. The complainant, undersigned, has give 3 lectures online on You Tube on the Constitutional validity of farm laws and even visited the Singhu Border on 19th January 2021 and verified from all the farmers as to whether it was a Sikh Issue. The Hindu Sect of Farmers from Haryana were interviewed by the complainant undersigned and they said that some politically interested people were roping in unrelated issues of Khalistan, when all communities in the protest stood united.”

The petitioner has therefore prayed, “That all preventive and coercive measures may be taken by the respective State police in the matter.”

Cause Title: Sardar Chanderpal Singh vs Union of India