{"id":313488,"date":"2019-06-20T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T11:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313488"},"modified":"2019-06-20T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T11:36:47","slug":"rapper-hard-kaur-booked-for-sedition-over-posts-against-yogi-adityanath-mohan-bhagwat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rapper-hard-kaur-booked-for-sedition-over-posts-against-yogi-adityanath-mohan-bhagwat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Hard Kaur booked for sedition over posts against Yogi Adityanath, Mohan Bhagwat"},"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-313489 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hard-kaur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/hard-kaur.jpg 506w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/hard-kaur-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/hard-kaur-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/hard-kaur-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">UK based rapper Hard Kaur has been booked for sedition over her remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on social media, police said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She was also booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for posting objectionable remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The complaint was filed in Varanasi by lawyer Shashank Shekhar on Wednesday under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that includes sedition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The complaint will be forwarded to the cyber cell for further investigation, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hard Kaur had posted &#8220;derogatory comments&#8221; against Yogi Adityanath and blamed the RSS for Hemant Karkare\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hard Kaur aka\u00a0Taran Kaur Dhillon is a Punjabi and Hindi rap singer and has sung in Bollywood movies as well.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK based rapper Hard Kaur has been booked for sedition over her remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on social media, police said on Thursday. She was also booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for posting objectionable remarks. The complaint was filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[11519,2134,11520],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313488"}],"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=313488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313490,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313488\/revisions\/313490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}