Case against Anil Kapoor and A R Rahman for calling Indian “Slum Dogs”
Posted on Jan 22, 2009
One Tapeshwar Vishwakarma, general secretary of Slum Dwellers’ Joint Action Committee, on Tuesday filed a complaint case in the court of chief judicial magistrate Raghavendra Kumar Singh, charging the duo Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor and music director A R Rahman – with defaming slum dwellers by calling them “slumdogs” and Indians “dogs” in the movie. They, thus, violated the slum dwellers’ rights to live a dignified life, the complaint said.
Though the court has fixed February 5 as the next date of hearing, it has not taken cognizance in the case and, instead, asked the complainant to produce evidence in support of his allegations.
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