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Mumbai Police summons Kangana Ranaut, Rangoli Chandel for third time in sedition case

On October 17, after taking cognisance of Munnawaral aka Sahil Ahsrafali Sayyed's complaint, upon the direction of the Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate J.Y. Ghule, an FIR was registered against the siblings.

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Actor Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel have been summoned by the police, asking them to appear before Bandra Police on November 23-24 over "objectionable comments on social media to spread communal tension between 2 groups."

Kangana has been summoned on November 23 and Rangoli on November 24.

These are the third summons to the sisters after they failed to appear before the police officials on November 10, and November 11 and before that between October 26-27 for probe in a first information report lodged against them which includes sedition charges. The two reportedly skipped the previous summons as they were busy with their brother's wedding. 

On October 17, after taking cognisance of Munnawaral aka Sahil Ahsrafali Sayyed's complaint, upon the direction of the Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate J.Y. Ghule, an FIR was registered against the siblings. In his FIR, Bollywood casting director and fitness trainer, Sayyed had accused the two of spreading communal hatred, defaming the film industry, portraying the people working in it in a bad light with claims of nepotism, drug addiction, communal bias, attempting to drive a wedge between artistes of different communities, calling them murderers, insulting religions, etc, on the social media and through public statements.

It said that the Bandra police station did not take cognizance of the offence, after which the complainant moved the court.

Later, an FIR was registered against Kangana Ranaut and Rangoli Chandel at Bandra police station under charges of sedition and promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion.

The case has been registered under Section 124 A (sedition), 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) and 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings by insulting its religion) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

(With inputs from ANI)

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