Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone named in FIR over defective Hyundai car
Mumbai: Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, along with four others linked to Hyundai Motor India, are facing legal trouble following a complaint over an alleged defective car. The FIR, lodged on the directive of a court, stems from technical issues in a Hyundai Alcazar owned by Kirti Singh, a lawyer from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur.
Singh purchased the car in 2022 for Rs 23.97 lakh but claims the vehicle had a major defect where pressing the accelerator raised the RPM, but the speed did not increase. When she approached the dealership, it acknowledged the issue as a manufacturing defect. Strangely, they advised her to park the car for an hour and run it at 2000 RPM to resolve the engine warning—an instruction Singh says put her family's safety at risk on multiple occasions, as reported by NDTV on Wednesday.
After Hyundai and the dealership allegedly refused to fix or replace the car, Singh filed a fraud case against the company, the dealer, and the brand ambassadors, Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, accusing them of misleading the public by endorsing a faulty product.
The matter, initially brought as a private complaint to the CJM Court No. 2 in Bharatpur, led the court to direct the Mathura Gate Police Station to register the FIR. The police have filed a case under Section 420 (cheating) and other related sections, added the report.
Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika landed in legal trouble under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, which allows authorities to penalise endorsers for false or misleading ads. Additionally, last year, the Supreme Court has said that celebrities and social media influencers are equally liable if the commercial for the product or service featuring them is found to be deceptive.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
