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After FIR, Farah Ali Khan's 'unconditional apology' for tweets on homeless
May 08, 2015
Farah Khan @FarahKhanAli apologises: And so, I would like to offer an UNCONDITIONAL apology for my tweets ref the homeless sleeping on the streets.
That comes after a district court in Muzaffarpur today ordered that an FIR be registered
against the jewellery designer and singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya for their remarks against people sleeping on roads
following the conviction of actor Salman Khan in the 2002 hit-and-run case.
The
complainant had claimed that he had been hurt by the "derogatory"
remarks of the singer which he saw on TV channels and read in
newspapers.
In a series of tweets, Abhijeet had on May 6
said "Come out fraternity, support @BeingSalmanKhan boldly not
hypocriticly Roads footpath r not meant 4 sleeping, not driver's or
alcohol's fault (sic)." "Roads are meant for cars and dogs not for
people sleeping on them." Jewellery designer and Salman's friend Farah
Ali Khan had also sought to blame the homeless for the star's plight
with comments like footpaths are not for sleeping.
Farah had tweeted: "The govt should be responsible for housing ppl. If no 1was sleeping
on d road in any other country Salman wuld not have driven over
anybody. It's like penalising a train driver because someone decided to
cross the tracks and got killed in the bargain. No one should be
sleeping on the road or footpath. It is dangerous to do that just like
it is dangerous to cross tracks. "
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