HC grants transit pre-arrest bail to ‘Tandav’ director, others

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The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted a transit pre-arrest bail to ‘Tandav’ director Ali Abbas Zafar, Amazon Prime India head Aparna Purohit, producer Himanshu Mehra and the present’s author Gaurav Solanki, in opposition to whom a case was registered in Lucknow for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments by means of the online collection. Justice P D Naik granted the reduction to the 4 for a interval of three weeks to allow them to method the involved
court docket at Lucknow the place the FIR was registered in opposition to them.
Earlier within the day, a four-member group of Uttar Pradesh Police arrived in Mumbai to conduct a probe into the case registered in Lucknow in opposition to “Tandav”, an official stated.
The UP Police group is more likely to file statements of the makers and forged and crew of the Amazon Prime Video’s collection, which has been accused of injuring non secular sentiments for its depiction of Hindu deities.
Lawyers Aabad Ponda and Aniket Nikam, who represented Zafar and others, informed the excessive court docket that the 4 require a while to method the involved court docket in Lucknow for a pre-arrest bail and therefore require an interim reduction from arrest.

“The (four) applicants are innocent and have been wrongly implicated in the offences,” the transit anticipatory bail plea stated.
Ponda and Nikam argued {that a} group of the Uttar Pradesh police had arrived in Mumbai to arrest the 4 and therefore the safety from arrest was required.
The 4 have been booked underneath sections 153 A (selling enmity between completely different teams on grounds of faith, race and so forth), 295 (injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the faith of any class), 501 (1)(B) (public mischief with intent to trigger worry or alarm) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and underneath related sections of the Information Technology Act.
They approached the excessive court docket on Wednesday. At least three FIRs have been lodged in opposition to the makers and artists of “Tandav” in Uttar Pradesh – at Lucknow, Greater Noida and Shahjahanpur – for alleged inappropriate depiction of UP Police personnel, deities, and hostile portrayal of a personality taking part in prime minister within the present.
“Tandav”, a nine-episode political thriller starring Bollywood A-listers Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia and Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, began streaming final week.