A Bombay lawyer on 22nd October filed a criminal defamation complaint against writer-lyricist-poet Javed Akhtar before a magistrate court at Mulund in Bombay over his alleged remark against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) made during a television interview. Akhtar had drawn parallels between the Taliban and Hindu extremists.
The complainant, Santosh Dubey, who claims to be an RSS supporter, alleged that Javed Akhtar unnecessarily dragged the name of the RSS and defamed the organisation in a calculated and well-planned move, to gain political mileage.