‘Tandav’ row: Supreme Court refuses to grant interim safety to net sequence makers

The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to grant interim safety from arrest to the makers of net sequence ‘Tandav’ in reference to a number of FIRs filed towards them on expenses of wounding non secular sentiments.
A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah was listening to as many as three separate petitions of filmmaker Ali Abbas Zafar, Amazon Prime India head Aparna Purohit, producer Himanshu Mehra, the present’s author Gaurav Solanki and actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub.
The apex court docket additionally requested the makers of the online sequence to strategy the excessive court docket for anticipatory bail or quashing of FIRs.
“We cannot use the power under Section 482 CrPC. We are not inclined to grant interim protection,” the Bench was quoted as saying by Live Law.
The court docket additionally issued notices to Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka governments in search of their response on pleas for quashing FIRs towards the makers.

Multiple FIRs had been filed towards the makers of Tandav in numerous cities of the nation for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments. As the controversy picked tempo, the makers of Tandav stated they are going to drop sure scenes from the online sequence.
A nine-episode political thriller that began streaming earlier this month, Tandav stars Bollywood A-listers Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia and Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub.