Mumbai court grants bail to Kamal Rashid Khan in 2020 controversial tweets case

A Mumbai court granted bail to Kamal Rashid Khan, best known as KRK in the industry, on Monday in the 2020 controversial tweets case. The actor-director had allegedly made derogatory remarks against late actors Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan in 2020, after which a case was registered against him at Bandra police station.

His advocates Ashok Sarogi and Jay Yadav filed KRK's bail plea before the Bandra magistrate court. The lawyers said that their client's judicial custody was not required as the police had filed its charge sheet in the case.

The FIR was lodged based on a complaint by Yuva Sena leader Rahul Kanal on April 30, 2020, where he alleged that KRK's tweets on the late actors spread 'hatred'.


In the FIR, Kanal said that KRK regularly spreads hatred on social media. "He came into Bollywood with a movie named 'Deshdrohi' and is really acting like one. Even when the world is going through a pandemic, I can't understand his inhumane behaviour and spreading hatred in all spheres of life."

The complainant said KRK was making hateful comments against the late actors. "After Irrfan Khan, who is India's pride, passed away, he was making poor claims and statements on him. He was also talking crap about senior actor late Rishi Kapoor," he said in the complaint. He also said that KRK is not in the country and requested PM Modi to file a case against him.

The same day he was sent into 14-day judicial custody, and continued to stay there. His son, Faisal Kamaal, took to Twitter to request actors Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to 'save' his father's life. He claimed that Khan's life was in danger and that he needed to be out of prison because of the harsh treatment being meted out to him.

The 23-year-old Faisal lives in London.

Earlier last month, the Borivali court had granted bail to the critic in another 2020 controversial tweets case involving actor Akshay Kumar and producer-director Ram Gopal Verma.

At the time, police claimed that Khan's posts were communal and he targeted Bollywood personalities.

However, Khan's bail plea said that the tweets in question were only his comments on the film titled 'Laxmii Bomb' (which later was released as only 'Laxmii') and no offence as alleged by the police was committed. According to the bail plea, KRK is a 'critic and/or reporter in the film Industry'.

Before this, a suburban Bandra court had granted bail to him in the 2021 molestation case registered at Versova police station. He allegedly demanded sexual favours from an actress and held the complainant's hand in the first week of January 2019.

In August, Khan was arrested by the police at the Mumbai airport after he arrived from Dubai in connection with his tweets.

(With inputs from PTI)