Stand-up
comedian
and
actor
Sunil
Pal
recorded
his
statement
at
a
police
station
here
on
Thursday
in
connection
with
his
alleged
defamatory
remarks
against
doctors
engaged
in
COVID-19
management,
an
official
said.
The
Andheri
police
here
earlier
month
registered
an
FIR
against
Pal
and
summoned
him
for
questioning.
On
Thursday,
Pal
reached
the
Andheri
police
station
and
recorded
his
statement,
the
police
official
said.
While
arriving,
Pal
said
he
came
to
the
police
station
despite
not
being
well
as
he
respects
the
law.
The
FIR
against
Pal
was
registered
under
Indian
Penal
Code
IPC
Sections
505-II
(statement
conducting
mischief)
and
500
(punishment
for
defamation)
on
the
basis
of
a
complaint
filed
by
Dr
Sushmita
Bhatnagar,
head
of
the
Association
of
Medical
Consultants.
According
to
the
complaint,
Pal
made
the
alleged
derogatory
comments
against
doctors
during
a
show
on
an
entertainment
channel.
In
her
statement
to
the
police,
Dr
Bhatnagar
said
last
month
she
came
across
a
video
on
social
media
in
which
Pal
was
seen
making
derogatory
remarks
against
doctors.
Dr
Bhatnagar
also
accused
Pal
of
making
derogatory
comments
against
frontline
health
workers.
Pal,
in
the
video,
was
heard
saying,
"Doctors
are
a
form
of
God,
but
90
per
cent
of
the
doctors
have
taken
an
evil
form,
and
are
fraud.
Poor
people
are
being
scared
in
the
name
of
COVID
all
day,
they
are
humiliated
and
harassed
by
saying
there
are
no
beds,
no
plasma,
no
medicine,
no
this,
no
that."