Mithun seeks quashing of case linking him with Bengal violence

Actor Mithun Chakraborty, on Tuesday, has filed a petition in Calcutta High Court for withdrawing FIR filed at Maniktala Police Station against him. During the Brigade rally of BJP, he was heard saying some of his famous movie dialogues. Later a case had been filed against him for making provocative comments.

Kolkata:Actor Mithun Chakraborty, who got public attention during the state election, has filed a petition before the Calcutta High Court seeking quashing of a case registered against him for alleged incitement to post-poll violence through his speeches, in which he had uttered popular dialogues from his films.

According to his lawyer, the hearing of the matter is likely to be taken up before the appropriate bench of the court later this week. The actor uttered the popular film dialogues at a rally after he joined the BJP on March 7.

The complainant claimed in his FIR at the Maniktala police station in Kolkata that the actor had used dialogues like "marbo ekhane lash porbe shoshane (I will hit you here and the body will fall in the crematorium)" and "ek chobole chabi (just one snakebite and you will become a photograph) during a BJP campaign rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata for the West Bengal assembly elections.

It was alleged that these dialogues were a cause for post-poll violence in the state. Chakraborty claimed that the utterances of such film dialogues were only recreational and that he is innocent and in no way connected with any offence as alleged by the complainant.

Chakraborty has sought before the high court quashing of proceedings against him pending before the additional chief judicial magistrate at Sealdah court. He has been accused of promoting enmity between different groups, an intentional insult to provoke breach of peace and making statements conducing to public mischief.