The Madras High Court on Thursday sought the response of the Chennai city police to a petition filed by an advocate clerk seeking registration of a First Information Report against actor Kamal Haasan for branding people as “Hindu terrorists” in one of the series of articles being written by him in a magazine.
Justice M.S. Ramesh directed a government counsel to obtain instructions, within a week, from the police to the direction petition filed by G. Devarajan. The petitioner alleged that the actor indulged in a tirade against Hindus by branding them as terrorists.
“To make a joke of the majority Hindus’ belief and thereby attempting to decry secularism is the attempt by this actor Kamal Haasan [who wants] to spread the poison of violence against Hindus, which he should stop forthwith. Today, he says the Hindus are terrorists. It will be no wonder if the next day he calls the Christians or Muslims directly as terrorists.
“He should understand that no religion preaches violence but basically promotes goodwill with all other religions and also good conduct. But Kamal Haasan appears to divide the peace-loving Tamil population on the basis of religion by creating a myth that Hinduism is a religion of terrorists,” the petitioner alleged.
