HC quashes case against Mithun linking him with poll violence

December 09, 2021 21:24

The Calcutta high court on Thursday quashed a police case alleging that cine star Mithun Chakraborty's uttering dialogues from his films at a public meeting here had caused political violence in West Bengal during the assembly elections held earlier this year.

At the public meeting on March 7, Chakraborty had said: "Marbo ekhane, laash porbe shoshaney" (I will hit you here and your body will fall in the crematorium) and "Ek choboley chobi' (just one snake bite and you will turn into a photograph), his dialogues from two popular Bengali films.

He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on that day.

The court observed that since Chakraborty did not deny that he uttered the said dialogues, any further police investigation of the present case will be an unnecessary and vexatious exercise.

Justice Kausik Chanda quashed a police case filed by a ruling Trinamool Congress worker against the film star registered with the Maniktala police station in Kolkata and pending before the court of additional chief judicial magistrate at Sealdah.

Observing that the petitioner is a popular matinee idol, Justice Chanda said the involvement of film stars in politics in the country is nothing new.

"It is also well known that film stars try to entertain and attract voters by saying cinematic dialogues in political rallies. The case in hand is no exception," the judge said.

The court noted that Chakraborty admitted that on many occasions, on public demand, he has said those dialogues in different functions to entertain people.

"The two dialogues in question are fundamentally funny, hilarious, and entertaining; it is futile to try to find the elements of hate speech in them," the court said. -- PTI

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