Mumbai Police slap sedition charges on Kangana Ranaut, Rangoli Chandel

The Mumbai Police have issued summons to Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel for investigations following an FIR lodged against them with sedition charges included, officials said on Wednesday.

"Among the charges include Indian Penal Code Sec. 124-A (sedition)...besides spreading communal hatred and falsehoods. The police have also recorded the statement of the complainant, Munawwarali Sahil A Sayyed today in this connection," his lawyer Ravish Zamindar told IANS.

The sisters have been directed to come to Bandra Police Station on October 26-27, five days after the Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate JY Ghule took cognisance of Sayyed's complaint and ordered an FIR to be registered against the siblings last Saturday (October 17).

A Bollywood casting director and fitness trainer, Sayyed had accused Kangana and Rangoli of defaming the film industry, portraying the people working in it in a bad light with claims of nepotism, drug addiction, and communal bias, attempting to drive a wedge between artistes of different communities, calling them murderers, insulting religions, etc, on social media and through public statements.