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  • Man stalks Mumbai-based web series actor on her social media platforms, held

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: A 35-year-old man was arrested in suburban Andheri for allegedly stalking and harassing a 26-year-old web series actor on her social media platforms, police said on Monday.

    The actor, who worked in web series in Hindi and Bengali, has been facing the harassment for the last few months, a police official said.

    While interacting with her fans through live streaming on a social media platform recently, the actor had received obscene messages from an unidentified person, he said.

    She blocked the person on the platform but he started sending messages on her Instagram account. After a few days, he started tagging her and her husband with defamatory content on Twitter too, the official added.

    The accused person recently obtained the contact number of the actor and started to call her and also sent her text messages, the official said, adding he also stalked her in person.

    The actor approached DN Nagar police station and filed a complaint. The police registered a case and arrested the accused on Sunday, he said.

    MUMBAI: A 35-year-old man was arrested in suburban Andheri for allegedly stalking and harassing a 26-year-old web series actor on her social media platforms, police said on Monday.

    The actor, who worked in web series in Hindi and Bengali, has been facing the harassment for the last few months, a police official said.

    While interacting with her fans through live streaming on a social media platform recently, the actor had received obscene messages from an unidentified person, he said.

    She blocked the person on the platform but he started sending messages on her Instagram account. After a few days, he started tagging her and her husband with defamatory content on Twitter too, the official added.

    The accused person recently obtained the contact number of the actor and started to call her and also sent her text messages, the official said, adding he also stalked her in person.

    The actor approached DN Nagar police station and filed a complaint. The police registered a case and arrested the accused on Sunday, he said.

  • Complaint against Kangana Ranaut in Maharashtra court for

    A complaint has been filed against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut at a Mumbai court for “spreading hate and breaking the brotherhood, integrity of the country” through “provoking hate speeches” given by her.

    The Metropolitan Magistrate 65th court, Andheri, Mumbai has set November 10 as the next date for hearing in the matter. The complainant, a Mumbai based lawyer, advocate Ali Kaashif Khan Deshmukh, has accused Ranaut of attacking not just the Maharashtra Police, and government in connection with the death case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, but of also “promoting enmity amongst our country people for her political gain”

    The complaint includes several of Ranaut’s tweets in which she had targeted politicians, Maharashtra Police and personalities from the Bollywood film industry.

    “She has stooped even low by misusing her fanbase, fame, power, influence through her social media accounts and has been creating hatred, enmity amongst authorised legally constituted government bodies and also prevailing religions in India through her tweets/statements with an aim and intent to garner cheap publicity, personal gains and benefit by taking undue advantage of the grave situations prevailing in India,” the complaint read.