Sacred Games 2: Tajinder Bagga files complaint against Anurag Kashyap

‘Sacred Games 2’ season has landed in a fresh row over a scene that allegedly hurts sentiments of Sikhs. After Shiromani Akali Dal leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa expressed his fury over controversial scene, w Bharatiya Janata Party leader Tajinder Bagga has also filed a complaint against one of directors, Anurag Kashyap, demanding that a First Information Report be registered against him. Bagga, who is Spokesperson of Delhi unit of BJP, claimed that makers ‘deliberately’ depicted scene to ‘outr’ religious feelings of Sikh community. 

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In second season of ‘Sacred Games’ that premiered on Netflix on August 15, Saif Ali Khan, who plays a Sikh police officer, is seen throwing ‘Kada’, an ornament of religious significance worn on his right wrist, into sea. 

In his complaint filed at a New Delhi police station, Tajinder Bagga stated, “ accused has deliberately and intentionally depicted a scene in which a character belonging to Sikh community removes his KADA and throws it away in a disrespectful and insulting manner.” 

te furr read, “KADA is considered as a revered and integral part of Sikh religion and it is treated with utmost respect and faith. It is a part of five Kakaars, which is quintessential for Sikhs. accused abovenamed has intentionally and deliberately depicted aforesaid scene in his abovementioned web series, with sole intention of insulting and outraging religious feelings of people belonging to Sikh community to promote disharmony, enmity, hatred and ill-will between religious groups, to provoke breach of peace by giving provocation and to severally insult religious beliefs of Sikhs.” (sic) 

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Apart from registration of an FIR against Kashyap, Bagga also requested authorities to “direct accused to forthwith delete above scene from his aforesaid web series and take most stringent penal action against accused Anurag Kashyap.” 

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Earlier Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sirsa had also echoed same feelings, accusing Kashyap of disrespecting sentiments of Sikhs and deliberately inserting scene into film. “A KADA is t an ordinary ornament. It's pride of Sikhs & a blessing of Guru Sahib," he had tweeted. 

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