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Punjab: 80-year-old files defamation suit against Kangana Ranaut

BATHINDA: An 80-year-old woman farm activist from Bathinda, who actor Kangana Ranaut had called a protester who had been hired for Rs 100 a day, has fied a defamation suit against the Bollywood starlet. Mohinder Kaur has filed the defamation suit against Kangana for a now-deleted tweet in which the actor had called the former Bilkis Bano of Shaheen Bagh fame and claimed that such women could be hired for protests for Rs 100 a day. Mohinder has filed the complaint under Section 499 (whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of such person) and 500 (defamation) of the Indian Penal Code in the court of Bathinda duty magistrate cum judicial magistrate 1st class (JMIC) Tanvi Gupta. Mohinder has prayed for the complaint to be accepted and Kangana Ranaut be convicted and sentenced with maximum imprisonment for the charges. The court will take up the complaint on January 11 to record evidence to see legality of the complaint. Mohinder’s husband, Labh Singh, said the words used by Kangana had harmed their prestige. The family owns 12 acres of land and said the claims mad by Kangana were intolerable. Mohinder, who is from Bahadur Jandia village, had hogged limelight in November, when a picture of her in which she was holding a farm union flag had gone viral. When Kangana’s tweet on the photo invited a lot of criticism, she deleted it. Later, singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh had alsohit out at Kangana for making the claimsabout Mohinder. Two days ago, Mohinder had gone to Tikri border and addressed from the stage of farm organisation BKU ((Ekta Ugrahan). Mohinder’s counsel, Raghbir Singh Behniwal, said the complaint was filed on January 4.

The Times of India

2021-01-09

Amritsar