A first information report (FIR) was lodged against Bollywood producer Shirish Kunder on Friday for his “objectionable” and “abusive” post on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath Yogi, police said.
The FIR was lodged based on a complaint filed in the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow by Amit Kumar Tiwari, who while referring to the Chief Minister as “Hindu Hriday Samrat Sant Shiromani Yogi Adityanath”, quoted extensively from a tweet on Kunder’s official handle on March 21, wherein he says: “Going by the logic of making a goon as CM so that he behave, Daud can be [Central Bureau of Investigation] CBI director and [Vijay] Mallya [Reserve Bank of India] RBI governor.”
Tiwari complained that in the tweet, the Chief Minister has been compared to international terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and demanded that appropriate legal action be taken against the film producer.
An official said based on the complaint, an FIR has been lodged and a probe initiated.
Kunder, who however has deleted the tweets concerned, later tweeted an apology.
“I unconditionally apologise. I never meant to hurt anyones feelings or sentiment [sic],” he tweeted.
