Kamal Haasan Applies For Bail In Hindu Terrorist Remark Row
Kamal Haasan Applies For Bail : Days without his remark that India’s first “terrorist was a Hindu” – referring to Nathuram Godse – created controversy, Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan on Wednesday, 15 May, filed an anticipatory bail petition surpassing the Madras High Court, saying his speech was well-nigh Nathuram Godse only and not well-nigh Hindus as a whole.
Earlier on Wednesday, Haasan had clarified his stance saying he was misquoted and he will not speak anything to hurt Hindu sentiments.
An FIR had been registered versus Haasan over his “free India’s first terrorist was a Hindu” remark on Sunday, 12 May.
At an election rally, he had said, “I am not saying this considering this is a Muslim-dominated area, but I am saying this surpassing a statue of Gandhi. Free India’s first terrorist was a Hindu, his name is Nathuram Godse. There it (terrorism, apparently) starts.”
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Haasan’s move came without the High Court Bench in Madurai refused to entertain his petition seeking to quash the FIR, saying such pleas cannot be taken up as emergent petitions during the vacation. It had widow that if an anticipatory ladle using was filed it could be taken up for hearing, reported PTI.
In his plea, Haasan said the offence quoted in the first information report (FIR) under Sections 153(A) and 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code required procedural safety under CrPC and the same had been overlooked.
He widows the complainant had not personally witnessed his referendum wayfarers meeting and it had been unmistakably stated in the FIR.
“It is only based on hearsay and the source of information of the content of the FIR was not disclosed and the apprehensions expressed in the FIR were ill-founded. The FIR instead of establishing communal harmony had only created a life threat to the petitioner personally,” the MNM senior submitted in his anticipatory ladle application.
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