Mumbai: Days after
Kangana Ranaut slapped him with a legal notice, Hrithik Roshan has received yet
another legal notice, and this time it is for hurting the religious sentiments
by making “unwarranted” and “inexcusable” comments against the Pope.
The legal notice is in
reference to Hrithik’s tweet which he tweeted earlier this year on January 28 when
rumors of his alleged affair with Kangana Ranaut were surfacing online. Hrithik
had tweeted: "There are more chances of me having had an affair with the
Pope than any of the (I’m sure wonderful) women the media has been naming”.
The legal notice has
been sent by former Vice-Chairman of Maharashtra Minority Commission Abraham
Mathai. The notice states that the 42-year-old actor has “malafidely,
mischievously and intentionally insulted as well as defiantly ridiculed the
Pope, by suggesting that the respected and chaste Pope who is the religious and
spiritual head of Roman Catholics all over the world is available to have an
affair with you.”
Mathai's lawyer Rizwan
Siddiquee said the notice has been sent under the provision of Section 295(A)
of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) asking the actor to apologize in seven days,
failing which a criminal complaint will be filed. Mathai said: “Hrithik
Roshan has the right to have a relationship with anyone, but he doesn’t have
the right to draw in the Pope. This has unfortunate inferences — it suggests
that the Pope is gay. I’ve asked Roshan for an unconditional apology. It hurts
the Catholic community for whom the Pope is a revered personality.”
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