Muzaffarpur: A sedition case has been registered against 49 famous personalities who wrote a letter to PM Modi over the growing incidents of mob lynching in Muzaffarpur's Civil court on July 27.
The case was filed by advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Surya Kant Tiwari.
He alleged that the letter was written with the intention to spoil the nation's image and instigate communal violence.
Chief Judicial Magistrate has accepted the petition and the case will be heard on August 3.
As many as 49 celebrities from different fields including singer Shubha Mudgal, actor Konkona Sen Sharma and filmmakers Shyam Benegal, Anurag Kashyap and Mani Ratnam, among others, wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over incidents of lynching in the country.
In the letter dated July 23, the celebrities said that "exemplary punishment" should be meted out "swiftly and surely" in such cases.
The celebrities concluded the letter saying, "We hope our suggestions will be taken in the spirit that they are meant - as Indians genuinely concerned with, and anxious about, the fate of our nation."
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