India: FIR lodged against Indian filmmaker Shirish Kunder for calling Adityanath a goon
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Published: Mar 25, 2017, 03:40 IST | Updated: Mar 25, 2017, 03:40 IST
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'Hoping a goon will stop rioting once he is allowed to rule is like expecting a rapist to stop raping once he?s allowed to rape,' he wrote
An FIR was lodged against Indian filmmaker Shirish Kunder on Friday for a tweet he posted aboutUttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
UP: FIR registered in Hazratganj against filmmaker and Farah Khan's husband Shirish Kunder for his tweet against UP CM Yogi Adityanath. pic.twitter.com/X2Kgmds3u3 — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) March 24, 2017
The 43-year-old director had said, “Hoping a goon will stop rioting once he is allowed to rule is like expecting a rapist to stop raping once he’s allowed to rape.”
In the following tweet, he said, “Going by the logic of making a goon a CM so he behaves, Dawood [Ibrahim] can be Central Bureau of Investigation’s director. And [Vijay] Mallya the Reserve Bank of India governor.”
Both the tweets have since been deleted.
He has now publicly apologised for the tweets saying he “never meant to hurt anyones feelings”.
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I unconditionally apologise. I never meant to hurt anyones feelings or sentiment. — Shirish Kunder (@ShirishKunder) March 24, 2017
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