Actress Kasturi Shankar was arrested by a special team of the Greater Chennai Police which had travelled all the way Hyderabad to apprehend her.
A police officer from Greater Chennai Police confirmed her arrest, stating that she would be presented before a local court in Hyderabad and then transferred to Chennai following a transit remand.
According to a senior officer from Cyberabad, the Egmore police team arrived in Hyderabad on Saturday and detained the actor at her residence in Narsingi around 8:30 p.m.
Kasthuri allegedly made offensive remarks about certain Telugu-speaking communities in Tamil Nadu during a protest in Chennai on November 3, which focused on Brahmin rights and alleged discrimination against Hindus. A video of her statements was circulated by a YouTube channel.
On November 5, the All India Telugu Federation filed a complaint with the City Police Commissioner, accusing the actor of defaming Telugu-speaking women.
The Egmore police subsequently charged her under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including Sections 192 (provocation with intent to incite a riot), 196(1)(a) (promoting enmity between different groups based on religion, race, or language), 353(1)(b) (statements likely to cause public alarm), and 353(2) (circulation of such statements, including via electronic means).
Meanwhile, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently rejected Kasthuri’s request for anticipatory bail in a separate case filed by the Thirunagar police in Madurai for allegedly making disparaging remarks against women from a specific community.
Meanwhile, no action has been taken against YouTuber Irfan, who blatantly violated medical protocols by cutting his newborn baby’s umbilical cord in a hospital. Despite the seriousness of this breach, DMK Minister Ma Subramanian, who initially vowed to pursue legal action, later downplayed the incident, dismissing it as “not a heinous crime.”
There have been many instances of Dravidianists unleashing venom against the Hindu community particularly Brahmins.
No action has been taken against Dravidianist Thirumurugan Gandhi who had recently insinuated that martyred Major Mukund Varadarajan was a war criminal.
Despite filing an FIR against Dravidianist YouTuber Mukhtar Ahmed and hate spewer Dr. Kantharaj for their crass video derogating and objectifying cinema actresses, no arrest has been made.
Piyush Manush, another Dravidianist who fashions himself as an environmental activist had made baseless allegations against Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi. Prior to that he made hate speech against Chidambaram Deekshitars calling them as “people who want to marry 8-year-old girls”.
A rabid anti-Hindu YouTube channel named U2 Brutus released a video titled “This is the reason why Nataraja stands with his leg lifted“, in which a person who identifies himself as ‘Minor’ resorts to slandering Hindu God Siva and Goddess Kaali.
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