Actor and self-proclaimed film critic Kamaal R Khan has been sent to 14-day judicial custody after he was arrested by Malad Police over a controversial tweet he had shared in 2020. Popularly known as KRK, he was arrested after he landed at Mumbai Airport and will be presented before Borivali Court today.
Kamaal R Khan arrested
Kamaal R Khan's tweets and his open jibes at Bollywood films and actors often land him in trouble. Police was looking for Kamaal for two years, but he wasn't in Mumbai. On August 29, as soon as KRK landed at the airport he was detained. The complaint was filed against Kamaal R Khan at Malad Police Station.
In the year 2020, KRK had made an objectionable tweet on the late actor Rishi Kapoor being hospitalised, after which Shiv Sena leader Rahul Kanal lodged a complaint against Kamaal.
Rahul had said in the FIR that a person named Kamal R Khan is regularly spreading hatred on social media. "He came into Bollywood with a movie named 'Deshdrohi' and is really acting like one. Even when the world is going through a pandemic, I can't understand his inhumane behaviour and spreading hatred in all spheres of life.
The complainant said KRK was making hateful comments against late actors Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor. "After Irrfan Khan, who is India's pride, passed away, he was making poor claims and statements on him. He was also talking crap about senior actor late Rishi Kapoor also," he said in the complaint.
He also said that KRK is not in the country and requested PM Modi to file a case against him. "This person is surely not in our country. I would like to urge our prime minister to kindly register a case against him under sections:- 505, 504, 501, 188, 117, 121 and 153 (A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), thereby setting an example for everyone to follow," the complainant Rahul said in the complaint.
Salman Khan sought contempt action against KRK
In June 2021, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan filed an application before a court in Mumbai demanding that contempt action be initiated against Kamaal R Khan for continuing to make defamatory remarks despite an undertaking not to do so. The application was submitted in a defamation suit filed by Salman seeking to restrain KRK from directly or indirectly making and uploading videos or any other content on the actor, his business ventures and films/projects.
Salman had filed a defamation complaint against Kamaal R Khan over the latter's review of the just-released Hindi film 'Radhe'.
