The hearing on the sedition case against actor Ramya will be heard in Coorg court on October 19.
Ramya, a former Congress MP from Mandya, who had returned from Pakistan, where she had gone for the SAARC Young Parliamentarians Conference, said that "Pakistan is not hell, people there are like us". Outraged by which, a lawyer in Karnataka filed a case of sedition against the former Lok Sabha MP, who also goes by the name Ramya.
This is not the first time that a right wing organisation has taken offence in Congress-ruled Karnataka. Early this month, an FIR under section 124A was filed against Amnesty International by the Karnataka police for holding a function against the violation of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir.
Coming out to support Ramya was Pakistan India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) which sent out a statement saying that the charges were "baseless" and condemned "such jingoistic acts". "It is shocking to see that a message promoting peace between Pakistan and India can result in sedition cases against a person," the statement read.
The actor said that if a harmless comment as such can invite such outrage, she has not ruled out the possibility of people harming her physically. "To be honest, I really don't care. It is my fundamental right to speak what I want to, it is what our forefathers fought for. If we can't uphold that, then what is the point," she told dna.
