The police has not yet filed a case against anyone in the matter.
An activist who defied the government's ban on the documentary India's Daughter by screening it in a village near Agra on International Women's Day, was reportedly detained and questioned by the police on Monday.
Independent filmmaker Ketan Dixit reportedly used makeshift bedsheets to screen the documentary on the Nirbhaya rape case by Leslee Udwin to an audience of about 60 people in the Roop Dhanu village of Anwalkheda, about 40km from Agra on Sunday. Police also reportedly confiscated Dixit's laptop, pen drive and a projector that he had used for the same.
NDTV reported that local police picked up two villagers and Dixit was called to the police station. All three were let off after five hours of questioning. The police has not yet filed a case against anyone in the matter.
Dixit, who is also a campaigner for the Stop Acid Attacks organisation, said he had organised the screening in his individual capacity to protest against the ban.
Meanwhile, Stop Acid Attacks has said that though they supported Dixit's protest and believed in free speech and press freedom, the organisation was not a part of organising the screening. However, computers at a place run by acid attack survivors were sealed and those associated with the activist were being harassed.
The documentary had caused a furore last week after the government banned it from being screened after objections over how Mukesh Singh, one of the accused in the Nirbhaya gangrape incident, was interviewed for the documentary.
While the Editors Guild of India urged the government to revoke the ban on the documentary, a news channel on Monday ran a blank screen for one hour to protest the ban.
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