Kunal Kamra strikes Bombay HC towards FIR
Humorist and activist Kunal Kamra has approached the Bombay Excessive Courtroom, searching for to quash an FIR lodged towards him by the town police for allegedly directing a ‘traitor’ jibe at Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde.
Kamra moved the excessive court docket on 5 April. His plea has claimed the complaints towards him have been violative of his elementary rights of freedom of speech and expression, proper to follow any career and enterprise and proper to life and liberty assured underneath the Structure of India.
The plea, filed via advocate Meenaz Kakalia, is prone to come up for listening to earlier than a bench headed by Justice Sarang Kotwal on 21 April. Kamra final month obtained interim transit anticipatory bail from the Madras Excessive Courtroom within the case towards him, as a everlasting resident of Tamil Nadu.
The comic has failed to look earlier than Mumbai Police for questioning regardless of three summons issued to him.
Throughout a present in Mumbai in January, which was posted to YouTube as a video titled Naya Bharat in March, Kamra had taunted Shinde with out naming him, utilizing a modified model of a music from the Hindi movie Dil To Pagal Hai, the place he known as him a gaddar (traitor).
