The Kolkata Police on Wednesday questioned actor Mithun Chakraborty, who campaigned for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after joining it ahead of the March-April West Bengal polls, for about 45 minutes via video conferencing for allegedly “preaching violence” in his speeches.
The questioning, which was held virtually, began at 10:40 am and lasted for nearly 45 minutes.
Chakraborty had moved the Calcutta High Court for quashing of the FIR against him. The court, however, instructed him to cooperate in the investigation virtually.
On March 7, while addressing a gathering in Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground, Chakraborty had said, “Ami joldhorao noi, bele borao noi… ami ekta cobra, ek chobol-ei chobi (Don’t mistake me for a harmless snake, I am a cobra, can kill people in one bite’).” The dialogue is from his 2006 film, ‘Abhimanyu’.
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