A Mumbai court, while rejecting Javed Akhtar's plea against summons over RSS-Taliban remark, said the reputation of the RSS was tarnished when the group was compared to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The magistrate had also issued criminal proceedings against BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal and former Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte under relevant provisions of the Disaster Management Act.
The complaint alleged that the BMC commissioner had issued orders that discriminated between vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens during the Covid 19 pandemic.