A Division Bench of Allahabad HC quashes FIR registered against Farhan Akhar (@FarOutAkhtar)and Ritesh Sidhwani (@ritesh_sid) and others for allegedly depicting the city Mirzapur in a bad light and hurting sentiments of #Brahmin samaj.

#allahabadhighcourt #Mirzapur
The FIR had stated that Mirzapur is a holy city belonging to the goddess '𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐲𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐢'and the web series depicts it as an anti-social and criminal place.

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Also, the informant in the case had also made allegations that web series specifically maligns '𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐣'.

He had alleged that the in the series Tripathi family was deliberately depicted in a bad light to defame Brahmins.

#brahmin #Mirzapur #allahabadhighcourt
However, the bench noted that allegations in the FIR were not as such that the series portrays a particular religion or a class of citizens in a bad light.

Court noted that it was the informant alone whose religious,social & regional sentiments had been hurt.
#allahabadhighc
Therefore, court quashed the FIR which was registered in January this year u/s 295-A, 504, 505 and 34 of the IPC and Section 67-A of the IT Act in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh.
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