Tandav Controversy: Supreme Court To Hear Director Ali Abbas Zafar's Plea Against FIRs
Supreme Court on Wednesday (January 27) will hear Ali Abbas Zafar's plea, seeking to quash the FIRs and criminal complaints lodged in various states against the makers of Tandav.
Supreme
Court
on
Wednesday
(January
27)
will
hear
Ali
Abbas
Zafar's
plea,
seeking
to
quash
the
FIRs
and
criminal
complaints
lodged
in
various
states
against
the
makers
of
Tandav.
Earlier
this
month,
more
than
three
FIRs
had
been
filed
against
the
director,
producers
and
writers
of
Amazon
Prime
Video
original
show,
for
allegedly
hurting
Hindu
religious
sentiments.
According
to
reports,
a
bench
comprising
of
justices
Ashok
Bhushan,
R
Subhash
Reddy
and
MR
Shah
will
be
hearing
the
petitions.
The
court
will
take
up
three
petitions,
filed
separately
by
Ayyub,
Amazon
Prime
creative
head
Aparna
Purohit
and
another
one
moved
jointly
by
the
producer
and
director
of
the
Over
The
Top
(OTT)
series.
The
petitions
reportedly
will
be
argued
by
a
team
of
senior
advocates
led
by
veteran
lawyer
Fali
S
Nariman.
The
petition
requests
to
club
all
the
seven
FIRs
and
transfer
them
to
a
court
in
Mumbai.
It
has
also
asked
the
apex
court
to
order
a
stay
on
all
the
coercive
action
against
the
petitioners
for
the
time
being.
A
report
in
Hindustan
Times
said
that
out
of
seven
FIRs,
three
are
pending
in
Uttar
Pradesh
at
Lucknow,
Greater
Noida
and
Shahjahanpur.
The
FIRs
alleged
inappropriate
depiction
of
UP
Police
personnel,
deities,
and
adverse
portrayal
of
a
character
playing
the
role
of
prime
minister
in
the
show.
Meanwhile,
two
FIRs
have
been
registered
in
Madhya
Pradesh,
one
in
Karnataka
and
another
in
Bihar.
Criminal
complaints
are
reportedly
pending
in
Maharashtra,
Delhi
and
Chandigarh.
Earlier,
the
Bombay
High
Court
had
granted
a
transit
pre-arrest
bail
to
director
Ali
Abbas
Zafar,
Amazon
Prime
Head
Aparna
Purohit
and
writer
Gourav
Solanki
against
the
case
registered
in
Lucknow,
for
allegedly
hurting
religious
sentiments.
Tandav,
which
released
on
Amazon
Prime
Video
earlier
this
month,
is
a
nine-episode
political
thriller
that
stars
Saif
Ali
Khan,
Dimple
Kapadia
and
Mohd
Zeeshan
Ayyub
in
pivotal
roles.