Regular offender, makes blasphemous comments against Hindus & their gods: Complaint filed against filmmaker Leena Manimekalai
The equal rights activist alleged that Leena Manimekalai seems to be a regular offender as one of her previous tweets on August 5, 2020 said, "Ram is not God. He is just a BJP invented Electronic Voting Machine."
A written complaint has been filed by Barkha Trehan, an equal rights activist and President of Purush Aayog, in the Hari Nagar Police Station in Delhi against filmmaker Leena Manimekalai over her alleged anti-Hindu social media posts and controversial poster of her film Kaali.
Trehan has moved the written complaint against Manimekalai and others involved with the controversial film Kaali to lodge a First Information Report (FIR) u/s 153A, 153B, 295(A), 298, 505 and other necessary sections of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Trehan has stated that Manimekalai seems to be a regular offender and her anti-Hindu posts and poster of the film Kaali, which shows the goddess smoking cigarette, are definitely intentional and made with an aim to cause unrest in society.
The complaint mentions one of Manimekalai's previous tweets on August 5, 2020 which said, "Ram is not God. He is just a BJP invented Electronic Voting Machine."
The complaint reads, "Accused No. 1 (Manimekalai ) has been so blatant in offending the Hindus that when one person who couldn’t read Tamil asked for English translation, accused literally wrote it again on 06.08.2022."
Trehan has alleged that going by the social media posts of Manimekalai, it can be very well understood that her acts are highly objectionable, derogatory and defamatory, and intentional in order to hurt the sentiments of the Hindu community.
"(Manimekalai) is a habitual offender who time and again keeps making objectionable, offensive, derogatory, blasphemous, comments against Hindu gods, Hindu deities, Hindu icons, Hindu civilization, Hindu religious language and Hindus," Trehan's complaint states.
Therefore, stating that the objectionable social media posts and the proposed film against Hindus may very easily cause social unrest and create law and order situation in the nation and disturb the secular fabric of the nation, Trehan has moved the complaint not only against Manimekalai but also persons who are part of the said film.
Asha Ponnachan, Shravan, Fatin Chaudhary, Rishab Kalra, Pirakash Kanakanayakam, Tapas Nayak, Raja Rajan, Nedra Rodrigo, Dharshi Vara, Tamil Arts Collective, Queer Summer Institute, and others along with one Aga Khan Museum which has provided its platform for the film have been named accused in the complaint.