{"id":17454,"date":"2017-08-04T16:08:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T23:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=17454"},"modified":"2017-08-04T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T23:08:38","slug":"krishnamoorthi-files-complaint-over-abusive-tweets-4-booked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/krishnamoorthi-files-complaint-over-abusive-tweets-4-booked\/","title":{"rendered":"Krishnamoorthi Files Complaint Over \u2018Abusive\u2019 Tweets, 4 Booked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>File photo of Suchitra Krishnamoorthi (l) and director Ram Gopal Varma, at a promotional event for \u201cVeerappan,\u201d in Mumbai, May 26, 2016. (STR\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Actress-singer Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, who had recently tweeted against the \u201caggressive\/ear shattering call\u201d for \u2018azaan,\u2019 lodged a police complaint against the \u201cabusive\u201d tweets posted by netizens in response to her remarks, July 26, an official said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Based on her complaint, police registered a case against four persons, the official added.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnamoorthi, 41, had criticized the \u201caggressive\/ear shattering call\u201d for \u2018azaan,\u2019 saying she does not need public loudspeakers to remind her of God.<\/p>\n<p>She called it a case of \u201cimposed religiosity,\u201d describing the use of loudspeakers as \u201clowlife\u201d and \u201cdumb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her tweets were met with both praise and scorn. While some commended her for talking about the issue, others called her an attention-seeker.<\/p>\n<p>Some users even made abusive and sexually-colored remarks against her, following which she approached suburban Oshiwara police and filed a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on her complaint, police registered a case under IPC sections 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 67 (a) (punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act), against four persons,\u201d a senior police official said.<\/p>\n<p>The actress\/singer had tweeted \u201cCame home at 4:45 am 2 most aggressive\/ear shattering call of azaan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When a Twitter user posted that it was good to wake up at \u2018Brahma Muhurata\u2019 (early morning) according to Hinduism, the actress replied, \u201cI wake up at Brahmamuhurat of my own accord &amp; do my prayers &amp; riyaz &amp; yoga. I don\u2019t need public loudspeakers to remind me of my God or my duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She further said she had no problems with \u2018azaan\u2019 or prayers during decent hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut to be waking up entire neighborhood at 5 am is not civilized,\u201d she had posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo of Suchitra Krishnamoorthi (l) and director Ram Gopal Varma, at a promotional event for \u201cVeerappan,\u201d in Mumbai, May 26, 2016. (STR\/AFP\/Getty Images) Actress-singer Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, who had recently tweeted against the \u201caggressive\/ear shattering call\u201d for \u2018azaan,\u2019 lodged a police complaint against the \u201cabusive\u201d tweets posted by netizens in response to her remarks, July&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/krishnamoorthi-files-complaint-over-abusive-tweets-4-booked\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[33,139,147,3688],"class_list":["post-17454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bollywood","tag-entertainment","tag-siliconeer","tag-suchitra-krishnamoorthi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}