Kangana Ranaut ordered to appear before Bhatinda court in a defamation case

A magistrate in Mumbai ordered Kangana Ranaut to appear in court on April 19 in a defamation lawsuit filed by Mohinder Kaur, who was mistaken as the "Shaheen Bagh dadi" by the star on Twitter. According to Kaur's lawyer, Raghbir Singh Behniwal, Kangana has been summoned to appear in court on April 19.

He stated that the complaint was filed in January 2021.

In her complaint, Kaur had said that the actor made "false imputations and remarks" against her in a tweet by comparing her with a woman, saying she was the same "dadi" who was a part of the Shaheen Bagh protests.

 Kaur had alleged in the complaint that, 

"By using such remarks, the actor lowered my reputation and prestige."

The Bollywood actor had misidentified Kaur as Bilkis Bano, the octogenarian who made headlines during the anti-CAA protests in 2019 in the Delhi neighbourhood of Shaheen Bagh. In a tweet, Ranaut claimed that the 'Shaheen Bagh dadi' had joined the farmers' agitation at several border points of the national capital against the new agriculture rules.

She retweeted a photo of the two old women, one of whom was Bilkis Bano, and said that the "same Dadi" shown in Time Magazine was "available in 100 rupees."

After Twitter users pointed out that the two women were not the same, the actor deleted the tweet.

The petitioner alleged that the actor, on her Twitter handle, had baselessly accused her of being a protester paid to attend an agitation against the Centre’s controversial farm law.