A PUBLIC Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed within the Calcutta High Court searching for directives to the West Bengal authorities and the authorities involved to grab all printed copies of a difficulty of {a magazine}, ‘Paper’ journal, printed on July 23 that carried Bollywood Actor Ranveer Singh’s “nude” picture as its cowl picture.
The plea was filed by advocate Nazia Ilahi Khan final week alleging that the picture is “obscene as per the opinion of the public at large.” The plea additionally seeks to dam the journal’s web site inside West Bengal.
The petitioner has submitted that the image of Ranveer Singh would “deprave the mind of the public at large in West Bengal, especially of minors” and subsequently the circulation of the journal in query must be stopped instantly.
The matter is more likely to be heard later this week.
Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh is going through an FIR in Maharashtra for posing and publishing his ‘nude’ photoshoot footage on varied social media portals.
The FIR was registered underneath Sections 292, 293 and 509 of the IPC, 1860 and Section 67A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
