A Surat metropolis court docket on Monday issued a bailable warrant towards filmmaker-actor Anurag Kashyap for failing to look earlier than it in a case pertaining to his alleged offensive remarks made on social media towards the Brahmin neighborhood final yr.
Surat court docket points warrant towards Anurag Kashyap
Extra Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace JV Chauhan issued the bailable warrant towards Kashyap and saved the matter for additional listening to on December 24.
The order was handed after the 54-year-old filmmaker, identified for helming critically acclaimed Gangs of Wasseypur and Black Friday, amongst different Hindi motion pictures, failed to look earlier than the court docket regardless of summonses being issued towards him, together with through a newspaper.
The court docket in Could directed registration of a case towards Kashyap underneath Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 192 (selling enmity between totally different teams), 352 (intentional insult with intent to impress a breach of peace), and 352 (2) (circulating false rumours) on an software filed by lawyer Kamlesh Raval, a authorized advisor to Hindutva outfits Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
As a part of the judicial proceedings, the court docket issued a summons to Kashyap, however he failed to look earlier than it. When he remained absent on Monday, the court docket issued a bailable warrant towards him, Raval stated.
A bailable warrant permits the accused particular person to safe launch by furnishing bail as specified by the court docket. “We initially filed an software and requested his presence (in court docket) for verification, however he failed to look. The trial court docket subsequently initiated proceedings towards him. A summons was then issued, but he didn’t present up. The court docket directed {that a} public summons be revealed in a newspaper. We organized for this to be printed in a distinguished newspaper (in its Mumbai version), however he nonetheless failed to look,” Raval maintained.
The case towards Anurag Kashyap
The applicant had sought authorized motion towards Kashyap for his remarks dated April 16, 2025, whereby he posted “an objectionable message on social media (X) that solid a slur upon the whole Brahmin neighborhood.”
In his plea, the petitioner stated that when a person named Aaditya objected to Kashyap’s put up, the filmmaker responded angrily with a put up berating him and asking, “What have you ever achieved by being a Brahmin?” Raval claimed that by making such feedback, Kashyap tried “to disparage the Brahmin neighborhood, and this put up constitutes an insult to the whole Brahmin neighborhood.”
Such a press release by the accused posed a threat of selling enmity between totally different spiritual and caste teams throughout the nation, he contended. The accused is an actor, director, and producer, whose movies affect folks from all age teams. His follow-up social media put up revealed his mindset, as he tried to disrupt a peaceable environment and sought to defame the whole Brahmin neighborhood, in keeping with the petitioner.
Kashyap’s tweet was in response to objections raised by two outfits, Akhil Bharatiya Brahmin Samaj and Vipra Sena, over sure parts of the Hindi movie “Phule” following the discharge of its trailer.
“The statements made by the accused have defamed the whole Brahmin neighborhood and promoted animosity between totally different communities in India. His actions represent an try to disrupt India’s nationwide unity and disturb peace and concord,” Raval claimed.
Anurag Kashyap’s apology
Days after his feedback triggered an issue, Kashyap issued an apology to the Brahmin neighborhood, saying he crossed a boundary by utilizing “abusive language” whereas replying to somebody in anger.
“I sincerely apologize to this neighborhood to whom I didn’t wish to say this, however wrote it in anger whereas responding to somebody’s low-cost remark. I apologise to all my buddies, my household and the (Brahmin) society for my manner of talking and for the abusive language,” the filmmaker stated in April 2025 in a press release on Instagram.