FIR against Kangana Ranaut for alleged insinuations about Gandhi family

A first information report was filed against Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kangana Ranaut in Shimla on Friday for making allegedly objectionable insinuations on social media about the deaths of three members of the Gandhi family, PTI reported.

The case was filed under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to promoting enmity between different groups, statements conducing to public mischief and defamation, based on a complaint, the superintendent of police was quoted as saying.

The complainant alleged that Ranaut in her social media post on Tuesday had juxtaposed the deaths of former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, and Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi, to the subsequent political rise of Sonia Gandhi, The Times of India reported.

In a letter sent to the Himachal Pradesh Police chief seeking an FIR against Ranaut, the complainant alleged that the BJP MP’s comments could create misleading impressions.

The comment had come on the day Sonia Gandhi’s memoir Belonging was released.

Ranaut, a MP from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, had not yet commented on the FIR being filed against her.

Edited by Nachiket Deuskar.
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