Calcutta HC quashes FIR against Mithun Chakraborty
The Hindu
‘Dialogues uttered by actor funny, not hate speech’
The Calcutta High Court has quashed an FIR against well-known actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty registered at a police station in Kolkata. The FIR lodged on May 6 alleged that the dialogues uttered by him at a public rally amounted to promoting disharmony, enmity or feelings of hatred.
Addressing a rally at Brigade Parade Grounds on March 7, the actor-turned-politician uttered popular dialogues from his films, “Marbo ekhane, laash porbe shoshane [I’ll strike you here and corpse will land straight in the crematorium]” and “Ami joldhorao noi, bele borao noi... ami ekta cobra, ek chobol-ei chobi [I am not any harmless snake, I am a cobra that can kill you in one strike]’.
The order by Justice Kaushik Chanda pointed out that since Mr. Chakraborty did not deny the fact he uttered these dialogues and the context in which they were delivered, any further police investigation of the present case would be an “unnecessary and vexatious exercise”.