The Hyderabad High Court today issued a notice against actress Mallika Sherawat for allegedly dishonouring the Indian national flag.
The petitioner T. Dhangopal Rao, approached the high court and filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against her questioning her defaming the nation over a poster of a film that shows the Bollywood actress draped in the three colours of the national flag.
The court has asked them to reply to the notice in a month.
In the poster of the film Dirty Politics, Sherawat has been portrayed sitting on top of a car with a red beacon light, just wearing the Indian tricolour.
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