Chandigarh:
With
the
Punjab
and
Haryana
High
Court
coming
down
heavily
on
the
lewd
lyrics
of
songs
sung
by
singer-rapper
Honey
Singh,
the
Punjab
Police
Friday
booked
him
for
singing
vulgar
songs
in
public.
A
case
was
registered
against
the
singer
under
provisions
of
Section
294
(singing,
reciting
or
uttering
any
obscene
song,
ballad
or
words,
in
or
near
any
public
place)
of
the
Indian
Penal
Code
in
Punjab's
Nawanshahr
town,
some
80
km
from
here,
a
police
official
said.
"We
have
registered
a
case
against
singer
Honey
Singh
for
his
vulgar
songs
following
the
high
court
directions," Superintendent
of
Police
SS
Bhangoo
told
IANS
over
phone
from
Nawanshahr.
The
police
officer
was,
however,
evasive
when
asked
as
to
why
a
case
was
not
registered
against
the
singer
when
a
complaint
against
him
was
filed
by
an
NGO
earlier
this
year.
The
Punjab
and
Haryana
High
Court
had
on
Tuesday
directed
the
Punjab
Police
to
book
Honey
Singh
for
singing
songs
based
on
sexual
themes
and
innuendoes.
A
division
bench
of
the
high
court
said
that
Honey
Singh's
"songs
make
us
hang
our
heads
in
shame".
The
bench
said
that
singers
like
him
should
be
boycotted
as
his
songs
were
disrespectful
to
women.
Honey
Singh
had
courted
controversy
over
the
lyrics
of
his
song
"Main
hoon
balatkari"
(I
am
a
rapist).
However,
he
claimed
that
he
had
only
sung
the
song,
but
had
not
written
the
lyrics.
A
voluntary
organisation
called
HELP
(Human
Empowerment
League
Punjab)
had
filed
a
police
complaint
against
Honey
Singh
and
some
other
singers
in
January
this
year.
However,
no
action
was
taken
against
them.
It
is
only
after
the
high
court's
intervention
that
Honey
Singh
has
been
booked
by
the
police.
The
NGO
in
its
complaint
had
claimed
that
the
songs
of
these
singers
projected
women
in
poor
light,
promoted
violence
against
women
and
even
encouraged
rape.
"We
welcome
the
directions
of
the
high
court
and
the
case
registered
against
Honey
Singh.
This
should
have
happened
much
earlier.
We
will
take
up
the
matter
of
vulgar
songs
by
other
singers
as
well," HELP's
general
secretary
Parvinder
Singh
Kitna
said.
IANS