Actor Rajkummar Rao surrenders in Jalandhar court

Bollywood actor Rajkummar Rao on Monday surrendered before a Jalandhar court in an eight-year-old case lodged against him for hurting the religious sentiments. He was granted bail. The actor came masked in a simple way and no one in the courts got to know of his presence.

The court had issued arrest warrants against him after he did not receive summons and appear in the case. Rao submitted his reply to the court in person today.

A Jalandhar resident had lodged a complaint against him for appearing in a Shiva get-up in one of the posters of Bollywood film ‘Behen Hogi Teri’ released in 2017. Rao had given a twist to Lord Shiva’s avatar seated on a bike.

Film director and producer too were arrested on the grounds of hurting religious sentiments of Hindus. — TNS