A court in Maharashtra’s Thane city on Monday issued a show cause notice to writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar in connection with a defamatio...
A court in Maharashtra’s Thane city on Monday issued a show cause notice to writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar in connection with a defamation suit filed against him by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist for comparing the organisation to the Taliban, PTI reported.
The court of the additional chief judicial magistrate has directed Akhtar to appear before it on November 12, according to ANI.
The lyricist has made the controversial remark while speaking to a news channel on September 3 about the increasing hate crimes against Muslims in India.
RSS activist Vivek Champanerkar, who filed the suit against Akhtar in Thane, alleged that the lyricist meant to vilify Hindu organisations by drawing parallels between them and the “barbaric Taliban”, PTI reported.
He added that Akhtar’s accusations against RSS were “unfounded, false and baseless”, according to the news agency.
“The plaintiff states he has been hurt by defendant’s defamatory statement to tarnish the image of plaintiff’s organisation and hence he is in loss of rupee one for which the defendant is liable to compensate him,” the RSS activist’s lawyer submitted on his behalf.
Another RSS worker in Mumbai has also filed a defamation complaint against Akhtar for his comments.
The complainant, Dhrutman Joshi, also accused Akhtar of trying to vilify Hindus with his...
