Padmaavat: Karni Sena men unknowingly torched a car owned by another activist
Karni Sena activists set ablaze another Karni Sena activist’s Maruti Swift car in Bhopal during a protest held to oppose the release of Padmaavat. After which 6 people were detained by the Bhopal Police.
Yogesh Chaudhry, Inspector General of Law and Order said that a protest had been called at the Jyoti Talkies intersection on Wednesday evening by Karni Sena.
The activist lives in a EWS colony and is not financially very well off. Members of the Hindu Jagran Manch were also present at the protest and tore down posters of BJP leaders and ministers that had been put there earlier.
After the arson, police rounded up about 6 people and took them to the MP Nagar police station. Soon after that a large number of activists collected at the police stations demanding that a case not be registered for arson since the victim was not pressing charges.
The film was however given a clearance by the censor board after which the Supreme Court said that it cannot be banned.
Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh filed petitions in the Supreme Court on Tuesday demanding that the screening be stopped on grounds of law and orders. The Supreme Court struck down these petitions too.
-PTC News
