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Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut connected Monday (October 27, 2025) was granted bail successful a defamation lawsuit by a tribunal successful Punjab's Bathinda, arsenic she regretted the "misunderstanding" that arose pursuing her societal media station and said each 'mata' (mother) is respectable to her.
The tribunal had past September directed the BJP MP from Mandi successful Himachal Pradesh to beryllium contiguous successful idiosyncratic and rejected her plea to look via video conference.
Security was beefed up successful and astir the Bathinda tribunal analyzable up of the actor's appearance. She came escorted by information men and section police.
The tribunal analyzable was corralled down constabulary barricades.
The defamation lawsuit stems from a retweet the histrion made with her ain remark connected Mahinder Kaur, the 73-year-old complainant from Bahadurgarh Jandian colony successful Punjab's Bathinda district.
The remark was made successful 2021 during the farmers' protestation against the now-repealed workplace laws.
Ms. Ranaut reached the tribunal analyzable astir 2 pm.
Speaking to reporters afterwards, she asserted that she had made nary comments against immoderate individual.
"Whatever misunderstanding happened with the household of Mahinder [Kaur] ji, I gave a connection to her hubby for 'mata ji' astir however she was the unfortunate of a misunderstanding," she told reporters afterwards.
Mahinder Kaur was not contiguous successful the court, but her hubby was.
Ms. Ranaut said, "Never successful my dreams could I ideate this, the mode this contention was created. Every 'mata', beryllium she from Punjab oregon Himachal, is respectable to me." Asked whether she acknowledged that she committed a mistake unknowingly, she replied that if 1 looked astatine the lawsuit properly, determination was thing from her side.
"There was a retweet, which was utilized arsenic a meme. I person besides spoken and discussed this with the hubby of Mahinder ji," she said.
There were galore women successful that meme, and nary comments were made against immoderate individual, she asserted.
Somebody had made a remark connected the meme astir galore agitations taking spot crossed the country, she said.
Ms. Ranaut, however, said she regretted the misunderstanding that arose from the post.
Mahinder Kaur's counsel Raghubir Singh Beniwal said the tribunal granted bail to Ms. Ranaut connected a enslaved furnished by her father.
Mr. Beniwal said Ms. Ranaut filed different plea, seeking imperishable exemption from idiosyncratic quality successful the court, which helium opposed.
Mr. Beniwal said aft the tribunal asked the histrion whether she wanted to accidental anything, she said she wanted to apologise to the complainant, claiming that her station was not meant to people anybody.
When the tribunal asked Mahinder Kaur's husband, Labh Singh, helium told the tribunal that helium could not determine connected his ain and would sermon the substance with others earlier taking a telephone connected whether an apology tin beryllium accepted, the counsel said.
The tribunal has posted the substance for November 24.
In a ailment filed successful Bathinda successful January 2021, Mahinder Kaur alleged that the BJP MP defamed her by identifying her wrongly arsenic Bilkis Bano, an activistic who deed the headlines during the 2020 Shaheen Bagh protest.
Mahinder Kaur said the histrion made "false imputations and remarks" against her successful the retweet by comparing her with "dadi", who was portion of the Shaheen Bagh protest.
She said she had been a portion of dharnas and demonstrations since the opening of the farmers' protest.
Despite her aged age, she, on with the others, went to Delhi to enactment successful the agitation.
Mahinder Kaur said she perfectly had nary transportation with the Shaheen Bagh pistillate who featured successful Time magazine.
Ms. Ranaut moved the apex tribunal challenging an bid of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which refused to quash the ailment against her.
"There are circumstantial allegations against the petitioner, who is simply a celebrity, that mendacious and defamatory imputations by her successful the retweet person dented the respondent's estimation and lowered her successful her ain estimation, arsenic besides successful the eyes of others. Therefore, filing of the ailment to vindicate her rights cannot beryllium termed mala fide," the precocious tribunal said successful its August 1 order, dismissing Ranaut's plea.
However, the apex court, connected September 12, told Ms. Ranaut that it was not a elemental retweet and that the actor-politician "added spice" to what was existing.
Ms. Ranaut past withdrew the plea.
