The Calcutta High Court on Thursday dismissed a police case alleging that cine star Mithun Chakraborty uttered dialogues from his films at a public meeting here in West Bengal during the assembly elections held earlier this year. There was political violence. In a public meeting on 7 March, Chakraborty had said: Marabo khane, lash porbe shoshanne (I will kill you here and your body will fall in the crematorium) and ek chobole chobi (just bite a snake and you will turn into a picture), two popular Bengali His dialogues from movies. He had joined BJP that day.
The court observed that since Chakraborty did not deny that he had uttered the said dialogues, any further police investigation into the present case would be an unnecessary and disturbing exercise. Justice Kaushik Chanda dismissed a police case filed by a ruling Trinamool Congress worker against the film star at the Maniktala police station here and pending in the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Sealdah.
Observing that the petitioner is a popular matinee idol, Justice Chanda observed that the involvement of film stars in politics in the country is not new. “It is also well known that film stars try to entertain and attract voters by speaking cinematic dialogues in political rallies. The case is no exception,” the judge said. The court noted that Chakraborty admitted that on several occasions he had asked those dialogues on the demand of the public to entertain the people at various functions. “The two dialogues in question are fundamentally funny, hilarious and amusing, it is pointless to try to find elements of hate speech in them,” the court said.
It further held that the petitioner did not utter those dialogues to promote feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will between different religious, racial, linguistic or regional groups or castes or communities, as alleged by the complainant, and therefore In this case the offenses under sections 153A, 504 and 505 of the IPC are absent. The court noted that the petitioner spoke the dialogues on March 7, while the present complaint before the police was registered on May 6, after the declaration of West Bengal Assembly election results on May 2, 2021.
“It cannot be said that there is any close link between the dialogues spoken by the petitioner and the widespread violence in the state after the assembly elections,” the court said. The FIR by a Trinamool Congress worker alleged that BJP supporters had indulged in violence for allegedly inciting the petitioner through his film dialogues.
Chakraborty had in June filed a petition before the high court seeking quashing of the case.
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