Ranveer Singh nude photoshoot: what obscenity laws did he break?
Mumbai Police officers were scheduled to visit the home of actor Ranveer Singh on Tuesday (August 16) to serve summons on him to appear before them in connection with the FIR registered against him for alleged obscenity. What is the case about, and what sections of the law has he allegedly broken?
Mumbai Police officers were scheduled to visit the home of actor Ranveer Singh on Tuesday (August 16) to serve summons on him to appear before them in connection with the FIR registered against him for alleged obscenity.
Police registered the FIR last month following complaints that he posted his nude pictures on his social media handles. The pictures were apparently from a nude photoshoot that Ranveer did for the New York-based Paper magazine.
A lawyer and an individual running an NGO had separately approached the police. Chembur police registered the FIR based on the statement of Lalit Tekchandani, 50, who has told the police that he is a contractor and runs the Shyam Mangaram Foundation, which works with widows and children of farmers who have died by suicide.
Tekchandani has said that when he zoomed in on one of Ranveer Singh’s photographs, he realised that the actor’s private parts were visible. According to the complainant, upon inquiring, he found that Ranveer had done the photoshoot for Paper magazine, and would have earned a lot of money. He added it would also influence youngsters struggling to get into the industry to resort to similar measures to earn money and fame.
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