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Police directed to file FIR against SRK
The Maharashtra State Commission for Child Rights (MSCCR) has asked
police to file an FIR against Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan for using
foul language in the presence of children after an IPL match at Wankhede
Stadium in 2012.
"A.N. Tripathi, Secretary, MSCCR issued the
orders two days ago (March 18) to investigate the matter after
registering an FIR under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code
and Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act 2000 (as amended 2006),
Sec. 23 and submit a copy to the Commission," Abha Singh, an
activist-lawyer pursuing the matter, told IANS.
"An enquiry has also been ordered for not registering the FIR in the matter."
Singh
said in view of the commission orders, police would have to file the
FIR against Khan for hurling filthy abuses in public, threats,
assaulting on-duty public servants and illegal assembly.
Besides,
the state home department must immediately launch a detailed probe into
why the FIR was not registered in the matter, she added.
On May
16, 2012, Khan got into an ugly spat with officials of the Mumbai
Cricket Association (MCA) after an IPL match between Mumbai Indians and
Kolkata Knight Riders here.
MCA officials had alleged that Khan
engaged in fisticuffs with some security personnel and when they
intervened, he threatened them. He was also hurling dirty abuses in the
presence of small children.
Mumbai Police had registered a
non-cognisable offence against Khan and three others and the actor was
banned from entering the MCA premises for five years by a panel headed
by late union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.
Social activist Amit
Maru had lodged the first complaint with the MSCCR as the matter was
serious and infringed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of
Child, Singh said.
In the complaint, Singh said Maru detailed the
law with reference to acts where filthy abuses would mentally hurt a
child and the act tantamounted to cruelty to children.
"After
months of efforts, ultimately justice is prevailing on Khan who
seriously violated rights of small children by uttering very dirty
abuses before such innocent children in the Wankhede brawl matter,"
Singh said.
"He could run away from justice because police who
ought to have complied with the law violated that very law which it was
required to implement."
Singh said: "Hence, it is of outmost necessity that law need to takes its course exactly the way our law-makers contemplated."