Bengaluru: Police have arrested Kannada actor and activist Chetan Kumar, also known as Chetan Kumar Ahimsa, amid the ongoing hijab row in Karnataka.
The actor has been accused of tweeting objectionable content against a high court judge who is hearing the hijab case.
“Kannada film actor and activist Chetan Ahimsa has been arrested by Bengaluru City Police. An on-its-own FIR was registered on Tuesday and under 505(2) and 504 of the IPC. Based on the tweet, the FIR was registered in Sheshadripuram Police Station,” Deputy Commissioner of Police of Central Division, MN Anucheth, was quoted as saying in a statement by news agency PTI.
The tweet concerned is a retweet of his own old tweet about Justice Krishna Dixit in connection with a rape case.
Chetan Kumar’s old tweet posted on June 27, 2020 said, “This week KA (Karnataka) High Court Justice Krishna Dixit granted (granted) pre-arrest bail to rape-accused Rakesh B claiming ‘it is unbecoming of indian woman to sleep after rape; that is not way women react when they are ravished.’ What’s ‘unbecoming’ is 21st c (century) misogyny of this judiciary Dixit fossil.”
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