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Chennai court directs police to register FIR on complaint against makers of ‘Jai Bhim’

A Metropolitan Magistrate Court has directed Inspector of Police, Velachery to register a first information report on a complaint which was lodged by a Vanniyar outfit against the makers of Jai Bhim including actors — Suriya and his wife Jyothika.

The complaint alleged the makers of the film hurt the beliefs and sentiments of the Vanniyar community by projecting them in poor light. 

The court issued an order following a complaint/petition from K.Santhosh Naicker, an advocate and founder of Ruthra Vanniyar Sena in Velachery, filed in XVII Metropolitan Magistrate Court.

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