NEW DELHI: Filmmaker Leena Manimekalai has moved the Supreme Court with a plea to quash multiple cases lodged against her for depicting Hindu Goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette in a poster of her documentary.
A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha fixed the matter for consideration on January 20, following an urgent mentioning made on Friday.
The plea in the court sought a direction to quash all the FIRs registered against the filmmaker in various states over the poster of her documentary titled Kaali.
Multiple FIRs were registered in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand on complaints against the poster of the documentary.
The plea has also sought a stay on the proceedings in the meantime and also action against those who issued threats to her on social media.
The plea contended that the petitioner did not attempt to offend the religious sentiments of any person. The filmmaker claimed that she had also received open calls for violence, including of murder and rape, against her and her family after she tweeted a poster of the documentary.
The petitioner submitted multiple FIRs amounts to infringement of her constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right to freedom of
