Case filed against makers of IC-814 in Muzaffarpur court.
Case filed against makers of IC-814 in Muzaffarpur court.
Patna, September 4: While the protest intensifies against the makers of web series IC-814, a Muzaffarpur-based lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha filed a legal complaint against filmmakers and artists associated with the web series on Wednesday.
Ojha said that the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (First) Western, Muzaffarpur district court admitted the case and the next hearing is scheduled for September 20.
This action comes amid nationwide protests against the web series which was released on August 29, 2024.
Ojha expressed serious concerns about the contents of the web series.
The portrayal of the events in the IC-814 hijack incident, as depicted in the series, shows undue sympathy towards the terrorists involved. The web series deliberately distorts the truth of the events surrounding the hijacking potentially inciting hatred and endangering the country’s integrity,” Ojha said.
He alleged that the web series IC-814 was part of a conspiracy to tarnish the reputation of the government in power at the time of the incident and to embolden separatist sentiments.
“The makers have fabricated the story for the sake of “petty gains” and engaged in spreading propaganda through it. It is a matter of great disappointment and sorrow over the portrayal. They had hidden the true event and created a narrative that misrepresents history,” he said.
The individuals named in the complaints include director Anubhav Sinha, producer Sanjay Raut, producer Sarita Patil, assistant producer Rohit Sharma, actor Maseeruddin Shah, actress Dia Mirza, actor Pankaj Kapoor, actor Arvind Swami, actress, Patralekha and actor Vijay Verma.
The controversy centers around the IC-814 web series, released on Netflix which dramatizes the highjacking of an Indian Airlines Flight from Kathmandu to New Delhi in December 1999. The highjackers forced the plane to land in Kandahar, Afghanistan, with more than 160 passengers on board.
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The series has drawn ire for assigning Hindu names, such as Bhola and Shankar to the hijackers, a deviation from the actual identities of the perpetrators.
Various organizations have voiced their anger, arguing that this alteration of the hijacking identities amounts to a misrepresentation of the historic events and could potentially mislead the audience about the true nature of the incidents.
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