Author Ashish Kaul, who has filed an FIR towards actress Kangana Ranuat for violating copyright, on Wednesday despatched a discover to Khar police station demanding motion and clarification on why no police process has been initiated within the matter but. Kaul had filed his FIR on March 12.
The creator’s advocates Ravish Zamindar and Yogita Joshi advised IANS: “We have just served the Khar police station a notice to seek what has been done so far in MECR 1/2021, which was registered on 12/03/2021 against Kangana Ranaut and others. As per the Criminal Procedure Code of 1973, Section 41 onwards there are procedures on how a warrant or a notice is issued to any individual, when they are party to an FIR/MECR filed by the police station. It’s all guided by the law and this applies to all citizens. We are still unclear on the progress despite visiting the police station almost daily till the 15th of March, 2021. Hence, we sent this notice and hope there is swift action taken as per the law of the land.”
When contacted, Kangana’s advocate Rizwan Siddiquee mentioned that he does not have any response within the matter at present.
Kaul filed the FIR towards Kangana for asserting the movie “Manikarnika Returns: The Legend Of Didda” with out his approval. According to the creator, his guide “Didda: The Warrior Queen Of Kashmir” is the one written work that particulars the story of Queen Didda.
Talking solely to IANS earlier, Kaul had mentioned: “Copyright Act protects exclusivity. This is a non-bailable offence, which amounts to three years of jail term as recent High Court order. Besides my book, there is only one book in the world that mentions Didda. That 3,000-page book, ‘Rajataringi’, only has two pages on Didda where they talk about her sexual life, and how she killed her son and infant grandsons. The narrative of her being a nationalist who nurtured the undivided India has been written by only me. “
The case has been filed towards Kangana, her sister Rangoli Chandel, Kamal Kumar Jain and Manikarnika Films Private Limited. Kaul’s FIR was filed for infringement of the copyright and varied different sections together with 420, which quantities to prison breach of belief, dishonest, dishonest with data that wrongful loss could guarantee to the individual whose curiosity the offender is sure to guard, in addition to dishonest and dishonestly inducing supply of property, punishable underneath Sections 406, 415, 418, 34, 120 B and 420 of the Indian Penal Code, learn with Section 51, 63, 63A and different provision of The Copyright Act, 1957 and Section 65 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
