MUMBAI: Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut has legal trouble as police lodged a case against her Ranaut for allegedly inciting communal violence.
The Queen star has been booked for allegedly spreading hateful propaganda and inciting communal violence in West Bengal.
As per reports, activist Riju Dutta registered the FIR against the actor, sharing her Instagram post in the complaint and claiming she was tarnishing the image of West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
“Ms. Ranaut has posted several posts from her verified official Instagram handle bearing URL: http://instagram.com/kanganaranaut?igshid=2yruw6zd7j in the ‘Story’ section. She has also distorted and maligned the image of the Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal – Smt,” as per the complaint.
“Mamata Banerjee. Hence she is to be charged against hate propaganda to incite violence in West Bengal,” read the complaint.
Earlier, Kangana Ranaut’s Twitter account had been suspended as she was found repeatedly violating social media platform rules.
According to Twitter, the actress posted a series of tweets in reaction to the recent West Bengal election results repeatedly violating social media platform rules. A Twitter spokesperson said, “We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behaviour that has the potential to lead to offline harm.”
“The referenced account has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of Twitter Rules specifically our Hateful Conduct policy and Abusive Behaviour policy. We enforce the Twitter Rules judiciously and impartially for everyone on our service,” it added.
