{"id":312467,"date":"2019-05-20T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T08:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312467"},"modified":"2019-05-20T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T08:59:41","slug":"madras-high-court-grants-anticipatory-bail-to-kamal-haasan-over-godse-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/madras-high-court-grants-anticipatory-bail-to-kamal-haasan-over-godse-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Madras High Court grants anticipatory bail to Kamal Haasan over Godse remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312392 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kamal-haasan-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/kamal-haasan-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/kamal-haasan.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0Madurai\u00a0Bench of the\u00a0Madras High Court\u00a0on Monday granted\u00a0anticipatory\u00a0bail\u00a0to\u00a0actor turned politician\u00a0and Makkal Needi Maiam (MNM) founder\u00a0Kamal\u00a0Haasan in the case filed against him for his comment on Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s assassin Nathuram Godse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Campaigning for his party MNM\u2019s candidate in the bye-election for the\u00a0Aravakuruchi Assembly\u00a0constituency in Tamil Nadu last week, Haasan\u00a0had said that the first extremist of independent\u00a0India\u00a0was a Hindu in a reference to Nathuram Godse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His comment created a huge row nationwide and police complaints were filed in Aravakuruchi against Haasan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On May 17, Haasan defended his remarks by saying \u2018terrorists abound in all religions\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said, \u201cevery religion has its own terrorists and we cannot claim that we are sanctimonious. History shows you that all religions have their extremists,\u201d adding to it he said that his focus on Sunday\u2019s campaign speech was on maintaining harmony.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Madurai\u00a0Bench of the\u00a0Madras High Court\u00a0on Monday granted\u00a0anticipatory\u00a0bail\u00a0to\u00a0actor turned politician\u00a0and Makkal Needi Maiam (MNM) founder\u00a0Kamal\u00a0Haasan in the case filed against him for his comment on Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s assassin Nathuram Godse. Campaigning for his party MNM\u2019s candidate in the bye-election for the\u00a0Aravakuruchi Assembly\u00a0constituency in Tamil Nadu last week, Haasan\u00a0had said that the first extremist of independent\u00a0India\u00a0was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801,2072,2014,2534],"tags":[641,2374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312468,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312467\/revisions\/312468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}