New Delhi, An independent
filmmaker who allegedly screened the controversial documentary featuring an
interview of a Dec. 16, 2012, gangrape convict despite orders prohibiting the
same was arrested by police.
Police
had yesterday registered an FIR in this connection under Section 188 of IPC
(disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) at RK Puram police
station after the documentary ‘India’s Daughter’ was screened in south Delhi’s
Sant Ravi Dass camp area, where the gangrape convict used to live.
“Filmmaker
Ketan Dixit was arrested last night. He was later released on bail,” said a
senior police official. Dixit and some of his associates are alleged to have
held the screening.
A trial
court on March 4 had banned until further orders the broadcast of the interview
of gangrape convict Mukesh Singh, which was conducted in July, 2013, inside
Tihar jail here.
Earlier,
a trial court had restrained the media from broadcasting or publishing the interview
after Delhi Police registered an FIR in this regard and moved the court seeking
a restraining order. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry had also issued
an advisory to all television channels against airing the documentary.
The victim, a physiotherapy
student, was gangraped and assaulted with an iron rod after she boarded an
unregistered private bus with a male friend on the night of December 16, 2012. Thirteen
days later, she died due to the injuries inflicted upon her at a Singapore
hospital where she was airlifted for treatment.
Mukesh, along with three
others, was convicted and sentenced to death in September, 2013, for the
gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old victim. (Source- www.newsroompost.com)
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