Kolkata Cops Question Mithun Chakraborty Over Election Speech

The 71-year-old, a star campaigner for the BJP, is being probed for reciting a line from his hit Bengali movie.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader (BJP) and actor Mithun Chakraborty was questioned by the Kolkata Police on Tuesday, 16 June, over a controversial speech during the Assembly election campaign in West Bengal.

This comes after the actor moved Calcutta High Court to cancel the FIR, but the court directed him to join the questioning virtually.

The 71-year-old, a star campaigner for the BJP, is being probed based on a complaint against him for reciting a line from his movie: "Marbo ekhane lash porbe shoshane (Will hit you here and the body will land at the crematorium)." The dialogue is from his hit Bengali movie MLA Fatakeshto.

The complaint stated that these dialogues were enough to incite violence, reported IANS.