MUMBAI: Javed Akhtar has alleged that Kangana Ranaut’s counsel deliberately gave a misleading statement in the Bombay High Court to get her passport renewed. The lyricist has filed an intervention application against the actress. 

In the intervention application, he stated that he had filed a criminal defamation complaint against Ranaut in November 2020 over her remarks about him during a TV interview. He added that criminal proceedings were pending against her.

An excerpt said, "In spite of knowledge of the criminal case (Akhtar's complaint) pending before the magistrate's court, Andheri, the petitioner no 1 (Ranaut) deliberately failed to disclose the same...With an intention to mislead and obtain a favourable order.”

He sought to intervene in the writ petition filed by the Bollywood actor who has challenged an FIR against her for allegedly infringing upon the copyright of a writer. 

Kangana has been trying to get her passport renewed since last month to enable her to travel to Budapest, Hungary, for a film shoot but the authority was delaying the renewal citing the criminal cases pending against her. 

Kangana's lawyer said that only two FIRs registered against the actor but criminal proceedings in these FIRs had not started yet.

The first was filed by the Bandra police in October last year for ‘promoting religious enmity through her tweets and the second FIR was registered in March this year by the author of the book ‘Didda: Warrior Queen of Kashmir' who alleged that Kangana announced a film on the book's subject without his permission.

Credits: DNA India