Three months after the actor Shah Rukh Khan scuffled with the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) and police officials at the Wankhede Stadium after an Indian Premier League match, the Maharashtra Commission for Protection of Child Rights will hear a complaint against him for 'corrupting' minds of children with 'filthy abuses [made] in public'.
The commission has sent a notice to the complainant and the Marine Drive police station to be present on 16 August for the hearing.
The complainant Amit Maru had approached the commission through his lawyer Y P Singh, saying that seven cognisable offences were made against Khan and sought a direction to the police to register an FIR against him.
'If Maru or the police officials are not present, then hearing will take place ex-parte,' said the notice, signed by the commission's under-secretary S S Supe, which was sent on Wednesday. Maru will have to explain how offences could be made out against Khan before the commission proceeds further.
'Shah Rukh Khan, an enormous celebrity, who the people of India, particularly children, emulate and follow, has harmed the future of our nation by corrupting minds of children by uttering filthy and dirty abuses in public,' Maru has said in his complaint. He said that children were trying to emulate the actor and uttering the same abuses.
He listed seven alleged offences committed by Khan, including hurling abuses in public before children under his own care, misbehaving in a drunken state at a public place, indecent behaviour, threatening to bury a living person, imputing unchastity to a woman and unlawful assembly.
On 16 May, an allegedly drunk Khan was involved in a brawl with the security personnel and MCA officials at the Wankhede Stadium after his team Kolkata Knight Rider's victory over Mumbai Indians. The Mumbai Police had registered a non-cognisable offence against him under various sections of the Indian Penal Code on the basis of a written complaint by MCA officials. The MCA had imposed a five-year ban on the actor for his conduct.
The commission has sent a notice to the complainant and the Marine Drive police station to be present on 16 August for the hearing.
The complainant Amit Maru had approached the commission through his lawyer Y P Singh, saying that seven cognisable offences were made against Khan and sought a direction to the police to register an FIR against him.
'If Maru or the police officials are not present, then hearing will take place ex-parte,' said the notice, signed by the commission's under-secretary S S Supe, which was sent on Wednesday. Maru will have to explain how offences could be made out against Khan before the commission proceeds further.
'Shah Rukh Khan, an enormous celebrity, who the people of India, particularly children, emulate and follow, has harmed the future of our nation by corrupting minds of children by uttering filthy and dirty abuses in public,' Maru has said in his complaint. He said that children were trying to emulate the actor and uttering the same abuses.
He listed seven alleged offences committed by Khan, including hurling abuses in public before children under his own care, misbehaving in a drunken state at a public place, indecent behaviour, threatening to bury a living person, imputing unchastity to a woman and unlawful assembly.
On 16 May, an allegedly drunk Khan was involved in a brawl with the security personnel and MCA officials at the Wankhede Stadium after his team Kolkata Knight Rider's victory over Mumbai Indians. The Mumbai Police had registered a non-cognisable offence against him under various sections of the Indian Penal Code on the basis of a written complaint by MCA officials. The MCA had imposed a five-year ban on the actor for his conduct.