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A day after he was booked by the Ghaziabad police for allegedly defaming former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati in a video, social media influencer Prakash Kumar, popularly known as ‘Puneet Superstar’, issued an apology on Thursday.
“My intention was not to hurt anyone’s sentiments, but if it has…I seek their forgiveness and vow not to repeat it. Jai Shri Ram,” Kumar said in a video posted on his Instagram account, puneetsuperr_star.
Atul Kumar Singh, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Shalimar Garden, said that the police were investigating the case. “It was a bailable offence and he was asked to sign a bond on Thursday,” Singh said.
According to the police, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against Kumar, who has over 10.8 million followers on Instagram, after advocate Narendra Mohit, the district president of the Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP’s) Ghaziabad unit, filed a complaint on Wednesday.
In his complaint, Mohit said that Kumar, a Ghaziabad resident, had addressed the BSP national president as “Mummy” in a viral video, and this had allegedly sparked anger among party workers.
Terming it an “unforgivable and indecent act”, Mohit sought “the strictest punitive legal action should be implemented so that in future no one can make any indecent comment against any person /special person”, as per the FIR.
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