Vaani Kapoor, who was last seen in YRF‘s blockbuster 'War', got embroiled in a controversy for wearing a top with ‘Hare Ram’ imprinted on it. A police complaint has been filed against Vaani at Mumbai’s NM Joshi Marg Police Station. The complainant Rama Sawant has alleged that she has hurt religious sentiments and that she was called by the cops to record the statement in the case.
Rama’s complaint letter read, “The undersigned is an ardent devotee of Lord Shri Ram. The undersigned has come across a photograph of Bollywood actress by name Ms. Vaani Kapoor on her Instagram, where under, she is found in vulgar cloth in semi-nude position and over her body and more particularly from her shoulder to breast, she is found to be wearing blouse/brassiere made out a cloth-like Ramnami, in as much as the names of Lord Shri Ram has been described containing ‘Shri Ram’, which denotes to Lord Shri Ram.”
The actress, later deleted the picture after she received flak from netizens who called her uncultured and told her to value the sentiments of the devotees. “Insulting Hindu gods and practices has become a way to tell a specific section in Bollywood we are going to stoop to any lows to get work,” wrote a Twitter user.
The complaint further stated, “In view of the facts set out herein above, and law enunciated by the Honourable Apex Court and so also various high courts of the Country including Hon’ble High Court, Bombay, you are requested to forthwith register an FIR against actress Vaani Kapoor for an offence punishable u/s. 215A of IPC and take further legal action so that she is brought to book/punished in accordance with the law.”
