Actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty was questioned by the Kolkata Police on Wednesday over a controversial speech during election rally. Before election, Chakraborty joined BJP. The interrogation is based on an FIR registered in Manicktala for his speech. The actor was interrogated virtually by the police over a complaint accusing him of inciting post-poll violence in West Bengal through his speeches. He is currently in Pune and was ordered by the Calcutta High Court to provide his details so that the interrogation can be carried out.
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Officers of the Manicktala police station in north Kolkata began questioning the actor at 10.20 am. A Kolkata police officer said, “Till the last information was received, the questioning was still underway.” An FIR lodged at the Manicktala police station alleged that the actor had used dialogues like ”Marbo ekhane lash porbe shoshane” (Will hit you here and the body will land in the crematorium) and ”Ek chobole chobi” (A snakebite will turn you into a photograph, meaning will kill you) at a rally here after joining the BJP on March 7.
The complainant further alleged that these dialogues caused post-poll violence in the state. The complaint accused him of promoting enmity between different groups, an intentional insult to provoke breach of peace, and making statements conducing to public mischief. The Calcutta High Court had directed the actor turned BJP leader to provide his email address to the state so that he can make himself available by way of video conference for questioning. Clashes were reported from several parts of the state following the declaration of assembly poll results on May 2. The election helped Trinamool Congress return to power for the third time.
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On prayers by the lawyers of the petitioner and the prosecution on Friday for taking up the matter on a later date, the High court fixed the matter for hearing on June 18.
The BJP leader had filed a petition before the High Court seeking quashing of the case registered against him for alleged incitement to post-poll violence through his speeches, wherein he had uttered popular dialogues from his films.
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Chakraborty had claimed that the utterances of such film dialogues were only recreational and that he is innocent and in no way connected with any offence as alleged by the complainant.
