Kangana Ranaut moves HC seeking to quash FIR over 'anti-Sikh' comment

Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut has approached the Bombay High Court seeking to quash the FIR registered against her last month by Mumbai Police after a complaint by a Sikh organization.

The complainants said that Kangana portrayed the farmers' protest on Delhi borders against the farm laws as a Khalistani movement in an Instagram post on November 21.

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They had filed a case for 'hurting religious sentiments' against her in Mumbai.

In her post, the actor had referred to "Khalistani terrorists" and invoked former prime minister late Indira Gandhi who "crushed" them.

The actor's petition, filed last month through advocate Rizwan Siddiquee, said that her post was misconstrued and she had no intention of hurting the Sikh community's sentiments.

Kangana n her plea said, the post was not against farmers but against a banned organization, and it was within her fundamental right to free speech.

She now wants the Bombay High Court to 'protect her legitimate rights and liberties by quashing the FIR'.