India
pti-Deepika S
Allahabad, Feb 25: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail plea filed by the head of Amazon Prime Video’s India Originals Aparna Purohit, who has been accused of inappropriate depiction of Uttar Pradesh police personnel, Hindu deities and an adverse portrayal of a character playing the prime minister in the web series ‘Tandav’.
While rejecting the application, a single-judge bench of Justice Sidharth said that the applicant was earlier granted interim protection from arrest by another bench in a similar case but she was not cooperating with the investigation.
The petitioner’s plea was that the web series was a work of fiction. There was no intention of the applicant to outrage the religious feeling of any community.
The court observed, “The fact remains that the applicant had not been vigilant and has acted irresponsibly making her open to criminal…