Mumbai Police registers case against Babita aka Munmun Dutta in Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah for her derogatory comment on a community

On Saturday, 29 May, Mumbai police registered a case against television actor Munmun Dutta for allegedly using a derogatory term against a community.

• The case relates to the remark that the Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah actor made in a video about make-up, which she had posted on a social media platform on May 9, in which she used a word for a specific community, police said.

The video had gone viral on social media platforms.

• “The case against Dutta was registered on May 26 based on a complaint lodged by Naresh Bohit (40), a community leader and a worker of a political party, at Goregaon police station on May 12,” the police official said.

Since the actor resides in Amboli police station limits, the complaint application was forwarded to that police station, he said.

• An FIR was registered against the actor on Wednesday after the investigation.

She has been booked under IPC sections 295(A) (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and section 3 of the Prevention of Atrocities against SC/ST Act, the official said.

• An apology was drawn by Munmun on May 10 through she said that she used the earlier derogatory remark due to her “language barrier”.

Earlier, similar cases were registered against the actor in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, police said.