South Indian actress S Kasthuri was arrested Saturday evening by the Cyberabad police over her alleged remarks concerning the Telugu group throughout an occasion in Chennai. The actress will probably be produced earlier than a courtroom tomorrow.
She was arrested from a visitor home owned by a movie producer in Hyderabad.
On Thursday, the Madurai Bench of the Madras Excessive Courtroom dismissed the actress’s plea for anticipatory bail. The bench noticed that the remarks constituted hate speech and underscored the fragile stability between free expression and communal duty.
The actress’s feedback throughout a speech at a Brahmin assembly early this month provoked widespread backlash.
A member of the Naidu Mahajana Sangam State Government Committee filed a police grievance towards her, citing offences underneath a number of sections of the BNS Act and provisions from the IT Act.
As per the grievance, she allegedly mentioned that Telugu individuals, who “got here to serve the wives and courtesans of Tamil kings” solely 300 years in the past, now falsely claimed Tamil id even because the Brahmin group had been denied the id of Tamizhian. After the backlash, she issued a public apology, clarifying that her remarks had been supposed to deal with solely sure people and never the Telugu group at massive.
