Lucknow: Head of Amazon Prime India (Unique Content material), Aparna Purohit, obtained her assertion recorded on the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow on Tuesday in reference to the FIR in opposition to her for alleged objectionable depiction of Hindu deities in net sequence ‘Tandav’.
Disposing of her petition in search of keep on police proceedings, the Allahabad excessive court docket had on Monday directed Purohit to seem earlier than the police and cooperate within the investigation.
Investigating officer inspector Anil Kumar Singh mentioned, “Purohit had not been cooperating within the probe. She lastly appeared to file her assertion following the court docket’s directives.”
“On January 17, an FIR was lodged in opposition to Amazon Prime head Aparna Purohit, director the net sequence Ali Abbas Zafar, producer Himanshu Krishna Mehra, author Gaurav Solanki and others. Nonetheless, when Lucknow police group reached Mumbai to take statements, all of the accused, besides Aparna, appeared earlier than the group and gave their statements. Notices have been additionally points to them. Purohit didn’t meet us and sought safety from the excessive court docket on February 11,” he mentioned.
Singh, nevertheless, didn’t share the main points of her assertion.
Sources within the police division claimed that 100 questions have been posed to Purohit and added that she reached the police station at 2pm and stayed there until 5pm.
Sources mentioned she was additionally questioned in regards to the phrases and visuals used to indicate Hindu dieties in dangerous mild.
The case was registered by further inspector at Hazratganj police station, Amarnath Verma, who alleged that within the seventeenth minute of Episode 1, characters enjoying Hindu gods and goddesses have been portrayed in an objectionable method. Within the twenty second minute of the identical episode, an try was made to ignite caste rigidity, he added.
The accused have been booked on costs of selling enmity between teams on grounds of faith, defilement of a spot of worship or an object held sacred, forgery for function of harming fame, statements conducing public mischief with the intent to threaten the unity, integrity, safety or sovereignty of India and depicting Hindu gods in dangerous mild.
Disposing of her petition in search of keep on police proceedings, the Allahabad excessive court docket had on Monday directed Purohit to seem earlier than the police and cooperate within the investigation.
Investigating officer inspector Anil Kumar Singh mentioned, “Purohit had not been cooperating within the probe. She lastly appeared to file her assertion following the court docket’s directives.”
“On January 17, an FIR was lodged in opposition to Amazon Prime head Aparna Purohit, director the net sequence Ali Abbas Zafar, producer Himanshu Krishna Mehra, author Gaurav Solanki and others. Nonetheless, when Lucknow police group reached Mumbai to take statements, all of the accused, besides Aparna, appeared earlier than the group and gave their statements. Notices have been additionally points to them. Purohit didn’t meet us and sought safety from the excessive court docket on February 11,” he mentioned.
Singh, nevertheless, didn’t share the main points of her assertion.
Sources within the police division claimed that 100 questions have been posed to Purohit and added that she reached the police station at 2pm and stayed there until 5pm.
Sources mentioned she was additionally questioned in regards to the phrases and visuals used to indicate Hindu dieties in dangerous mild.
The case was registered by further inspector at Hazratganj police station, Amarnath Verma, who alleged that within the seventeenth minute of Episode 1, characters enjoying Hindu gods and goddesses have been portrayed in an objectionable method. Within the twenty second minute of the identical episode, an try was made to ignite caste rigidity, he added.
The accused have been booked on costs of selling enmity between teams on grounds of faith, defilement of a spot of worship or an object held sacred, forgery for function of harming fame, statements conducing public mischief with the intent to threaten the unity, integrity, safety or sovereignty of India and depicting Hindu gods in dangerous mild.
