Mumbai: A case of alleged dishonest was filed against actor Kangana Ranaut by Mumbai police on Friday on an area courtroom’s orders after the writer of ‘Didda: The Warrior Queen of Kashmir’ accused her of copyright violation.
The First Information Report (FIR) was registered at Khar police station against Kangana, Kamalkumar Jain, Rangoli Chandel and Akshat Ranaut, an official mentioned.
Ashish Kaul, the writer of the e-book which has been translated into Hindi as ‘Kashmir Ki Yodhha Rani Didda’, alleged in a grievance earlier than a Justice of the Peace that he has unique copyrights to the life story of Didda, the Princess of Lohar (Poonch) and the Queen of Kashmir.
As per the grievance, he had despatched an electronic mail concerning the storyline of his e-book to Kangana, and she or he used some a part of the story in a tweet whereas asserting her film with out Kaul’s permission.
“Is it believable by any stretch of imagination that a story and a book are being usurped by a renowned actor- turned-social activist?” he mentioned.
On the Bandra metropolitan Justice of the Peace’s order, FIR was registered underneath IPC sections 405 (legal breach of belief), 415 (dishonest), 120 B (legal conspiracy) and in addition underneath the Copyright Act, a police official mentioned, including that additional probe is on.
Ranaut is already dealing with police circumstances in Mumbai over her allegedly provocative tweets.Â