Remark against Shinde: Police issue second summon to Kunal Kamra

Kamra has already stated in social media posts that he will not apologise for his remarks.

Kamra was booked under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including 353(1)(b), 353(2) (statements conducing to public mischief), and 356(2) (defamation). The MIDC Police Station lodged the First Information Report against Kamra as a Zero FIR based on a complaint lodged by Shiv Sena MLA Murji Patel.

Later, they transferred the Zero FIR to Khar Police Station.

“Kunal Kamra, during a stand-up comedy show at Continental Hotel, Khar, defamed our leader Eknath Shinde ji by making derogatory statements about his moral conduct. He also created hatred between the two political parties by tarnishing the sentiments of our party and our rival political parties towards each other,” Patel has alleged in the FIR.

After the video clip of Kamra’s standup show, in which took a jibe at Shinde, was uploaded online, Shiv Sena workers vandalised the Habitat studio at the Unicontinental hotel in Khar where Kamra recorded the show on Sunday.

The police registered a suo motu case against the Sena workers for vandalising the studio and subsequently arrested them. They were later released on bail.