{"id":40997,"date":"2016-01-19T19:40:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T14:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=40997"},"modified":"2016-01-20T03:30:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T22:00:38","slug":"karan-johar-discharged-from-criminal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/karan-johar-discharged-from-criminal-case","title":{"rendered":"Karan Johar discharged from criminal case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40998\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Karan-Johar.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40998\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"40998\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/karan-johar-discharged-from-criminal-case\/karan-johar\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Karan-Johar.jpg?fit=650%2C451&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"650,451\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Karan-Johar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Karan-Johar.jpg?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Karan-Johar.jpg?fit=640%2C444&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-40998 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Karan-Johar.jpg?resize=300%2C208&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Karan Johar discharged from criminal case\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Karan-Johar.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/Karan-Johar.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karan Johar discharged from criminal case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A local court today discharged producer late Yash Johar and director Karan Johar from a criminal complaint for playing national anthem in movie &#8220;Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham&#8221; without caution causing &#8220;dishonour&#8221; to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Karan Johar had filed revision petition before sessions court which was heard by Additional District Judge Dhruv Raj, who allowed the revision and discharged Karan Johar from the case today,&#8221; Johars lawyer Chandra Shekhar Sinha said.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint alleged that in the movie the national anthem was sung and some people in the picture hall stood up while some kept sitting as there was no caution before playing the song which caused dishonour to the national anthem.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\"><\/div>\n<p>The magistrate had passed a summoning order on April 17, 2002 and it was challenged by Karan Johar in high court, which had stayed the proceedings on July 18, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The high court vide judgement dated September 1, 2009 had directed the magistrate to consider discharge application but the magistrate rejected it vide order dated October 20, 2014, following which the revision petition was filed before the sessions court.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local court today discharged producer late Yash Johar and director Karan Johar from a criminal complaint for playing national anthem in movie &#8220;Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham&#8221; without caution causing &#8220;dishonour&#8221; to it. &#8220;Karan Johar had filed revision petition before sessions court which was heard by Additional District Judge Dhruv Raj, who allowed the revision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":40998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,7999,31987,35353,35352,117,80],"class_list":["post-40997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-court","tag-criminal-case","tag-featured","tag-karan-johar","tag-karan-johar-discharged-from-criminal-case","tag-law","tag-legal-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Karan Johar discharged from criminal case - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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