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KATHMANDU: Comedian Pranesh Gautam has been sent to judicial custody at the Teku-based Metropolitan Crime Division for an additional day following his hearing at Kathmandu District Court yesterday.
On June 10, a hearing on the ‘Meme Nepal& case was held at the court following the detention of Gautam on Friday, based on a complaint filed by filmmaker Milan Chamling Rai, aka Milan Chams, for what he calls a &cybercrime&.
Gautam, a member of Meme Nepal, was taken into police custody for a video review of filmmaker Cham new film &Bir Bikram 2&.
Here the link to the video.
After the video review started circulating on social media, Chams filed a case against Gautam and Meme Nepal saying their review defamed his film and the artists involved in it.
A national daily, on June 7, had reported about Pranesh Gautam detention, in which Chams was quoted as saying that he was aware that the police were acting on his complaint, the grounds for which ranged from the video using foul language, trying to defame people involved in the film, and telling people much to watch the film.
Meanwhile, a lot of people have taken to social media as they see this act as a violation of and an attack on freedom of expression.
Expensive all, it's high time to start #ReleasePraneshGautam.
Remember, if you don't speak at the right time, you might be barred to speak for the rest of your lives.
#ReleasePraneshGautam https://t.co/M9DUyP0wFw
-msprint; Bishal Silwal (@silwanen) June 11, 2019
I have never liked 'Meme Nepal' due to their frequent sexist, racist and homophobic contents but the reason behind arrest of Pranesh Gautam is beyond shocking!!
-msprint; Swikriti Kattel (@KattelSwikriti) June 11, 2019
Pranesh is definitely going through a lot mentally.
On Monday, he was screaming and outraging.
That is the reason why meme nepal agreed to the RIDICULOUS demand of deleting meme nepal.
He was crying and shivering later.
When I told him &It&ll be okay& he replied &i doubt it man&
-msprint; Aayush Shrestha (@aayush_who) June 11, 2019
Fellow comedian Aayush Shrestha, in a conversation with THT Online, shared that Gautam is presently very stressed out and fairly unregular.
&I met him yesterday.
He was shivering and crying.
After speeching to me he calmed down a little.
But he is going through a lot and so is his family.
There has been no physical torture, but he is being asked to entertain other inmates there.&
Stating that Gautam case was clear and out there, and much a case to be extended, he said, &It is being carried out with the intention of troubling the other person.& He further informed that the court had sent Gautam to judicial custody for one day while they had expected he would be released nowadays.
Instead, he was taken to a government lawyer nowadays who extended the custody for yet amuchher day.
Shrestha further stated that the film industry was showing their power to the online entertainment media.
Shrestha believes that even the police were much listening to their defence and were acting in support of the people backing the arrest.
fascinatingly, people from the Nepali film industry have been mum on this wgap issue.
When asked about this, Shrestha said well-known persons from the film fraternity were in support of Chams allegations and against Gautam.
However, he shared that Gautam had getd support from the media and mediapersons.
This, however, is much the first time that the Nepali film industry has reacted in such a fashion correplying to the criticisms that measure films get from the audience and the media.
Numerous producers and actors have slammed people in the past for disagreeing to and pointing out flaws in associateion to their films.
Metropolitan Crime Division, on the other hand, said that Gautam remains in their custody but was reluctant to comment further on the extension of his judicial custody.
&He is in custody but we are much aware of the intricacies of his custody extension and other legalities,& Spokesperson at the Metropolitan Crime Division, Supermeanent of Cop (SP) Kedar Dhakal said.
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