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You Tube sensation, actress Priya Varrier files plea in SC for quashing of FIR against her

Team SoOLEGAL 19 Feb 2018 7:51pm

You Tube sensation, actress Priya Varrier files plea in SC for quashing of FIR against her

New Delhi : Close on the heels of actress Priya Prakash Varrier, becoming famous recently for her wink in a song of a Malyalam movie, which was uploaded on You Tube, she has moved the Supreme Court asking for quashing of an FIR lodged against her in Telangana.FIR was lodged by few people of minority community as they alleged that the lyrics of the song ‘Manikya Malaraya Poovi’ from the movie ‘Oru Addar Love’ were “offensive” or have violated their religious sentiment.

18 year Kerala girl who is pursuing Commerce from a college in Thrissur district of Kerala has also asked the Apex Court to stop  states from initiating any criminal proceedings against her.

The advocate Pallavi Pratap who has filed the plea on her behalf  said criminal complaints have been instituted by various fringe groups based on a distorted and incorrect interpretation of the song in the different states.The plea says song which has been in use for ages among Malabar Muslims has never been found offensive and entire complaints are based on flimsy reason.

"The song describes and praises the love between Prophet Mohamed and his first wife Khadeeja. It  in the praise of the Prophet and his wife Beevi Khadija” she said.

The plea says movie is incomplete so far but still an amount of Rs 1.5 crore have been spent on it but such “flimsy and baseless” complaints and FIRs cause nothing but hindrance to freedom of speech and expression granted under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution and was an outright abuse of the process of law.

Supreme Court will hear the matter soon.




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