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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State spokesperson G. Bhanuprakash Reddy has filed a transgression ailment successful the tribunal of the IV Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class against histrion Prakash Raj for his alleged remarks astir Lord Rama and the epic Ramayana.
A subordinate of the TTD spot board, Mr. Reddy arrived astatine the tribunal analyzable on with his advocator and the party’s ineligible helping member, K. Ajay Kumar, connected Monday (June 15, 2026) to record the complaint. The ‘inflammatory’ statements made by the histrion were allegedly expressed during the Kerala Literature Festival, which aboriginal went viral connected societal media platforms.
“The remark was malicious successful quality and the contented was highly inflammatory. The histrion had intentionally depicted the ineffable epic Ramayana successful mediocre airy to origin outrage among the Hindu community,” helium told the reporters.
Mr. Bhanuprakash had antecedently served a ineligible announcement connected Prakash Raj and besides filed constabulary complaints successful Tirupati. However, since determination was nary enactment taken, helium filed a transgression ailment successful tribunal connected Monday.
The complainant besides highlighted Prakash Raj’s notation of the ‘unfounded’ and ‘divisive’ Aryan-Dravidian mentation successful his talk, which incited determination animosity and undermined India’s taste and spiritual unity.
According to him, the connection would pull Section 299 (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the spiritual feelings of immoderate people by insulting its spiritual beliefs) and Section 196 (promoting enmity betwixt antithetic groups connected the grounds of religion, race, spot of birth, residence, and acts prejudicial to the attraction of harmony) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023.
