The district police on Friday booked noted Punjabi singer Miss Pooja for allegedly hurting the sentiments of Hindu community by portraying Yamraj as a drunkard in one of her songs.
Acting on the complaint of a local advocate, Sandeep Kaushal, the judge has ordered the SHO of Nangal Police Station to register FIR against the singer as well as Harish Verma, an actor who played the role of Yamaraj in the video, Bidowale Fram Singh, a video production firm, and Speeds Record Musical Company.
The complainant has said that music video Jeeju was released in December 2017 in which Miss Pooja played the role of a wife and Harish Verma her husband who is a drunkard. Verma was also shown playing the role of Yamaraj in a drunk condition and carrying a mace.
“The accused Number 1 accepted herself in the start of the song that her husband looks like Yamaraj after consuming liquor. Neither Ved-Puran nor other religious books orally or written show that the Yamaraj consumes liquor nor the same has been heard by the complainant and others from their ancestors,” the complainant pleaded before Judge Sachhal Babbar.
The complainant goes on to say that the intentions of the accused were to “play with the hearts of Hindu people to hurt their feelings and insult the Hindu religion”. He adds that Yamaraj with gada being a Hindu God is “respectable, sacred and honourable and Hindu people worship him as God and gada (mace) being the weapon of many gods is also respectable”.
In his order, the judge said, “I have affirmatively accentuated my predisposition towards the contemplated facts through the vociferous and vituperative pontifications of the complainant, facts encapsulated and arguments put forth.”
In the light of the order issued, the FIR will be followed by investigation against Miss Pooja and Harish Verma.
Nangal SHO Sunny Khanna said on the orders of the court a case under Section 295A, 499 and 500 of the IPC was registered against Miss Pooja, Harish Verma, a Punjabi actor, Bideowale Frame Singh, a video production team, and Speed Records musical company.
Advocate Sandeep Kaushal had filed a petition in the court claiming that the accused had released a video song ‘Jeeju’ in which Pooja played the role of a wife and sung the song and Harish Verma played the role of her husband. It was stated that Verma had played the role of drunkard Yamraj with his mace.
Advocate Kaushal had contended that in no religious book Yamraj is shown consuming liquor.
