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FIR filed against Rishi Kapoor for posting offensive image on Twitter

| | Aug 27, 2017, at 08:54 pm
Mumbai, Aug 27 (IBNS): An FIR has been lodged against veteran actor Rishi Kapoor for allegedly posting an offensive image of a child on Twitter, media reports said.

Advocate Adil Khatri, who is also the general secretary of Jai Ho Foundation, has lodged a police complaint against Kapoor for posting an 'offensive picture' of a child on his Twitter handle.

Adil Khatri told indianexpress.com that, “We have filed a complaint with Mumbai Police Commissioner, Mumbai Cyber Cell and Ministry of Woman and Child Development against actor Rishi Kapoor for posting nude and pornographic image of a child on his Twitter account @chintskap.”

He added, “We don’t know who the child in the picture is, but it is offensive as the child is naked and a headphone has been stuck into his private parts.”

Kapoor has landed himself in controversies several times in past too with his witty comments on social media. Only recently, he had lashed out at director Anurag Basu for for the failure of Jagga Jasoos.

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