The High Grounds police have registered a case against film actor Ranveer Singh following a complaint alleging “insult to religious sentiments” during a public event, police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The FIR was registered on Wednesday based on a complaint lodged by Prashanth Methal (46), a Bengaluru-based lawyer, after an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACJM) court referred the private complaint for investigation.<\/p>\n
The accused has been booked under Sections 196, 299 and 302 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, the incident pertains to the closing ceremony of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in Goa on November 28, 2025.<\/p>\n
The complainant alleged that Ranveer Singh, while present on stage and in the presence of the lead actor of ‘Kantara: Chapter-1’, performed acts that mocked and insulted the sacred Bhoota Kola tradition practised in Coastal Karnataka.<\/p>\n
The complainant said he is a devotee of ‘Chavundi Daiva’, a revered guardian spirit worshipped in Bhoota Kola rituals, and that the deity is also his family deity, which he has worshipped since childhood.<\/p>\n
He alleged that the actor imitated the divine expressions of Panjurli\/Guliga Daiva in a “crude, comical and derogatory manner” and verbally referred to the sacred Chavundi Daiva as a “female ghost”. Despite an alleged request not to perform the Daiva act, the accused enacted an emotional Chavundi Daiva scene from ‘Kantara: Chapter 1’ on stage, the lawyer said.<\/p>\n
“Chavundi Daiva is not a female ghost but a powerful and fierce guardian spirit symbolising justice, protection, and divine feminine energy, and holds deep religious and cultural significance in the coastal region,” Methal said in his complaint.<\/p>\n
Referring to the deity as a ghost was described in the complaint as “blasphemous and a serious insult to Hindu religious beliefs and practices”. The complainant alleged that the accused, being a widely followed public figure, performed the act on an international platform with knowledge that it would hurt religious sentiments.<\/p>\n
The complaint stated that a video of the alleged performance went viral on social media, causing mental agony, anger and resentment among devotees.<\/p>\n
The complainant said he became aware of the incident after viewing the video on social media.<\/p>\n
“The act of the accused was deliberate, intentional and malicious, intended to outrage religious feelings,” the complainant alleged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The High Grounds police have registered a case against film actor Ranveer Singh following a complaint alleging “insult…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[182521,182522,182523,182524,182525,182526,49,48,361,75,182527,101265,182528,150348],"class_list":["post-440756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bhootakolacontroversy","tag-chavundidaiva","tag-coastalkarnataka","tag-goaiffi","tag-hinduculture","tag-religioussentiments","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-indianfilmfestival","tag-kantara","tag-legalaction","tag-ranveersingh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}