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The Mumbai Police have registered an FIR against Ranveer Singh for sharing nude photographs on Instagram. What is the case about, and what sections of the law has he allegedly broken?
The Mumbai Police registered an FIR against actor Ranveer Singh on Tuesday for sharing photographs from an apparently nude photoshoot for the New York-based Paper magazine. What is the case about, and what sections of the law is he supposed to have broken?
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.
Paper magazine did a nude photoshoot of actor Kim Kardashian in November 2014. Ranveer Singh’s photoshoot pays homage to late actor Burt Reynolds’s 1972 nude photoshoot for Cosmopolitan magazine.
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