FIR Against 49 Celebrities Who Wrote To PM Modi About Mob Lynching For 'Tarnishing Image Of Country'

Noted historian Ramachandra Guha, filmmakers Mani Ratnam, Anurag Kashyap and Aparna Sen are among the 50 people who have been booked in an FIR lodged in Bihar's Muzaffarpur after they wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising concern over the growing incidents of mob killing in the country.

The FIR was lodged on Thursday by the police on the order of Chief Judicial Magistrate Surya Kant Tiwari.
The letter was written by 49 eminent personalities, including filmmakers Mani Ratnam, Anurag Kashyap, Shyam Benegal, actor Soumitra Chatterjee as well as vocalist Shubha Mudgal in July this year.

Source: Indiatimes