MP Urination Case: FIR Against Bhojpuri Singer Neha Rathore Over Social Media Post

Rathore, known for her popular song 'UP me ka ba', shared a post highlighting an incident where a man was seen urinating on a tribal individual.

Bhojpuri singer Neha Singh Rathore has found herself in legal trouble after being booked for a social media post related to the recent pee-gate controversy in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. Rathore, known for her popular song 'UP me ka ba', shared a post highlighting an incident where a man was seen urinating on a tribal individual.

In the social media post, Rathore shared an image depicting a partially clothed man, allegedly identified as Pravesh Shukla, urinating on Dashmesh Rawat, a tribal person. The image portrayed the urinating man wearing a white half-sleeved shirt, a black cap on his head, with his khaki shorts placed aside.

The First Information Report (FIR) was filed against Rathore by Suraj Khare, a BJP worker, at the Habibganj police station in Bhopal, news agency ANI reported. The complaint alleged that Rathore targeted the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist organization, through her social media post. The FIR was lodged under Section 153(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which pertains to promoting enmity between different groups based on religion, race, etc. 

In charge of the Habibganj Police Station "Yesterday, a person named Suraj filed a complaint at the police station against the Twitter account named 'Neha Singh,' stating that the account holder put up a meme connecting RSS workers with the urine case," Manish Singh Bhadoriya was quoted as saying by ANI.

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"We have filed a complaint against Indian Penal Code Section 153. We will request information about the account holder from Twitter. Whether the tweet was posted by the account holder or by someone else will be determined after an investigation," Bhadoriya said.

Rathore also posted a message on social media, stating, "A BJP leader has filed a case against me for criticising the incident in Sidhi." 

This is not the first time Rathore has faced controversy. In February of this year, she received a notice for her song 'UP Me Ka Ba', which criticised the Uttar Pradesh government in relation to the death of a mother-daughter duo during an eviction drive in Kanpur Dehat.