Coimbatore: Amid the ongoing row around the controversial poster of the documentary Kaali, the Coimbatore police on Wednesday arrested 'Athiradi' Saraswati for threatening the Kaali director Leena Manimekalai through a video with a message.
The arrested woman is reportedly a 46-year-old right-wing functionary, hailing from the Chokkampudur near Selvapuram in Coimbatore city. She is also the founder of the Sashti Sena Hindu Makkal Iyakkam organisation here.
Saraswathi reportedly released a video on Tuesday wherein she openly abused the director of 'Kaali' for allegedly portraying the Hindu Goddess in a bad light in the movie poster. The woman can be heard threatening Manimekalai with 'dire consequences to life' as a repercussion of the supposed offence she has caused through the film poster. The video soon went viral on social media and grabbed police attention.
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On receiving the threatening video, Selvapuram police special sub-inspector Selvakumar lodged a complaint with the police against Saraswathi. A case was registered against her under sections 294 (b) and 506(i) of the Indian Penal Code. The police officials then arrested her from a women's hostel in Tirupur city on Wednesday morning. She is currently lodged in the police station for further inquiry into the matter.
The poster of the said film sparked a massive uproar on social media after a Delhi-based lawyer on Monday filed a police complaint against director Leena Manimekalai over a controversial poster of her new documentary. The said the controversial poster was shared by Manimekalai on social media on July 2. In the poster, Goddess Kaali has been shown smoking a cigarette.
