SC raps Taarak Mehta actress Munmun Dutta over 'casteist slur', stays FIRs

On Friday (June 18), a Supreme Court bench stayed criminal proceedings against 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah' actor Munmun Dutta for allegedly using a casteist slur in one of her YouTube videos.

New Delhi: "What you said may amount to bringing an entire community into disrepute," said a Supreme Court bench on Friday as it stayed criminal proceedings against "Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah" actor Munmun Dutta for allegedly using a casteist slur. The bench comprising Justices Hemant Gupta and V. Ramasubramanian said: "You say you are a woman but tell us if women have any better rights than men or they also have equal rights?" Senior advocate Puneet Bali, representing Dutta, argued that in the video posted on a social media platform last month, Dutta did not use the word 'Bhangi' intentionally and the word was used in West Bengal to refer to those who took intoxicants.