Keypoints:
- FIR has been filed for charges of outraging the religious feelings and portraying a particular community as linked to crime.
- The reason to file complaint was that the series outraged religious feelings and portrayed a particular community as linked to crime.
- The show was accused of outraging the religious sentiments, and portraying that a specific community had criminal links.
Amazon Prime webseries “Mirzapur” faces trouble as an FIR gets launched from Uttar Pradesh against the makers of the series on the charges of outraging the religious feelings and portraying a particular community as it is linked to crime.
Arvind Chaturvedi, who is a local journalist and also the writer of the book of the life of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has launched the FIR at Mirzapur’s Kotwali Dehat Station. In the police complaint, he also says that the plot and dialogues of the web series have hurt his “religious, social and regional sentiments” and that it has provided a wrong portrayal of Mirzapur city.
Executive producers of the series Riteish Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar and Bhaumik Gondaliya and Amazon Video platforms has been named in the FIR.
The complainant claimed that the web series has hurt his “religious, social and regional sentiments”, adding that it presented the city of Mirzapur in a poor light.
Being registered on January 17, it invokes Sections 295A (deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any class of citizens), 34, 504 and 505 of th IPC and Section 67a of the IT Act.
In the FIR, Mr. Chaturvedi alleges that the web series portrays a specific community as linked to crime, shows illicit relationships and incest, slangs and abuses and caste discord. The series also projects the judicial system as “false and polluted,” he says.Mr. Chaturvedi said he wanted the name of Mirzapur to be removed from the series. “This fight will go on till the name of the Mirzapur web series is changed,” he told the media.
Mirzapur SP Ajay Kumar Singh said, “On the complaint of one Arvind Chaturvedi of Chilbiliya village, a case has been lodged against the producers of the web-series Mirzapur and the OTT platform company Amazon Prime Video under appropriate sections of IPC and IT Act.”
