An FIR was filed against actors Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan for allegedly hurting religious sentiments by wearing shoes to the sets of a temple while shooting for Bigg Boss 9.
After hearing the arguments of the complainant regarding the action, a Delhi court decided to dismiss the case and give a clean chit to both the actors.
Station House Officer (SHO) Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vandana Jain allowed the complainant advocate’s plea to record pre-summoning evidence in support of his complaint.
According to the FIR filed by advocate Gaurav Gulati, two actors, Colors channel, and the director and producer of Bigg Boss 9, committed offences under sections 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings), 298 (uttering words with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings) and 34 (common intention) of Indian Penal Code.
He had alleged that a viral video showed the two actors wearing shoes at the sets of a temple where an idol was seen in the background.
“It is a disrespect to the Hindu religion and its belief as it is strictly prohibited to come in the temple with shoes and also they were showing their back to the idol which is also deemed to be an insult to the Hindu goddess… (sic),” it had alleged and claimed that it seemed to be a “well-planned malicious act to outrage Hindu feelings”.
However, the report passed by Station House Officer of Roop Nagar Police Station in February said, “No cognisable offence is made out. The promo was not shot to disturb the sanctity of a religious place or disturb or hurt the religious sentiments of any individual, group, community or section of the society.”
“As they (actors) had met after a long time, the director thought of an idea of showing them reuniting on the sets of ‘Kali Mandir’ in a similar manner as they had reunited in the movie ‘Karan Arjun’ in such a temple after their ‘re-birth’ in the film,” it added.
“This idea was not motivated by any intention of hurting any religious sentiments of any religious group and shooting of the promo was done in a studio and the incident never took place,” police had said, citing the channel’s reply.
