The letter was written by 49 eminent personalities, including filmmakers Mani Ratnam, Anurag Kashyap, Shyam Benegal and others
Current Affairs :-A FIR was stopped here on Thursday against about 50 big names, including Ramchandra Guha, Mani Ratnam and Aparna Sen, who had composed an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising worry over the developing episodes of crowd lynching, police said.
The case was held up after a request was passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate Surya Kant Tiwari two months prior on an appeal documented by neighborhood advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha.
“The CJM had passed the request on August 20, tolerating my appeal upon the receipt of which a FIR was stopped today at the Sadar police headquarters here,” Ojha said.
He said about 50 signatories of the letter were named as denounced in his appeal wherein they supposedly “discolored the picture of the nation and undermined the noteworthy presentation of the leader” other than “supporting secessionist propensities”.
The police said the FIR was stopped under areas of the Indian Penal Code, including those identifying with subversion, open annoyance, offending and offending with a goal to incite rupture of harmony.
The letter was composed by 49 famous characters, including producers Mani Ratnam, Anurag Kashyap, Shyam Benegal, on-screen character Soumitra Chatterjee just as vocalist Shubha Mudgal in July this year.
It had said that the lynching of Muslims, Dalits and different minorities must be halted quickly, while focusing on that there was “no majority rule government without dispute”.
It likewise noticed that Jai Shri Ram had been decreased to a “provocative call to arms”.
Aditi Mehta 