Last month Bollywood actor and LGBT ally Aamir Khan hosted a nationally televised forum which examined
the plights of gays and transgender people in a nation which recently
saw homosexuality recriminalized. The show went viral on YouTube, where
it was posted both in Hindi and with English subtitles. And here come the haters:
A court in Chandigarh issued a legal
notice to Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, seeking his response by 19
December on a petition alleging that he promoted homosexuality on his
popular TV show 'Satyamev Jayate'. Admitting the petition by advocate
Mandeep Kaur, the court of civil judge Jaswinder Singh had on Friday
issued a notice to Aamir Khan to file his reply by 19 December. In her
petition, Kaur alleged that Aamir Khan's conduct on his show 'Satyamev
Jayate' was a violation of the Supreme Court order on homosexuality,
upholding Section 377 which criminalises homosexual acts. Through the
petition, she sought the court's intervention to declare Khan's act a
contempt of court.
Kaur has demanded a public apology from Khan but says she has gotten no response.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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