Bollywood star Ranveer Singh has claimed to Mumbai Police that one of his photos in the nude photo shoot published in Paper Magazine on 21 July 2022 was morphed.
This nude photo shoot triggered a controversy that ultimately lead to a case being registered in Mumbai against Ranveer Singh.
The Bollywood star was shown all the photos by the police and it is reported that he denied uploading one of the pictures in which his private parts were allegedly visible.
Indian media reports that Ranveer Singh claimed in his statement to the Mumbai Police on 29 August 2022 that his photo was tampered with and morphed.
Earlier, in his interview with the Paper magazine, Ranveer Singh spoke about how the pandemic left a deep impact on him.
He said:
“Everything’s gone to shit. I understand that this journey of life is an agonizing f**king journey. It’s agonizing to just exist. I am hyper-sensitive to everything around me, it’s just the way I am, it’s how I’m wired.”
Ranveer Singh has further added:
“It’s so easy for me to be physically naked, but in some of my performances I’ve been damn f*ing naked. You can see my f*ing soul. How naked is that? That’s being actually naked. I can be naked in front of a thousand people, I don’t give a s*t. It’s just that they get uncomfortable.”
Some praised the Bollywood superstar while others used social media to post various reactions and rib-tickling memes since the release of the naked pictures.
The police case was registered under sections pertaining to obscenity and insulting the modesty of women, and under the Information Technology Act, at the Chembur police station in July 2022.
The complainant, an office-bearer of an NGO, had claimed that Ranveer Singh “hurt the sentiments of women in general and insulted their modesty through his photographs.”
It was on the basis of this complaint, a notice was served to the Bollywood star to join the investigation.
Ranveer Singh appeared before the Mumbai Police on August 29 and was questioned for around two hours.
Krishna Kant Upadhyay, the Deputy Commissioner of Police – Zone VI, told HT:
“We had asked the actor to come to the police station by August 30. He visited the police station on Monday at 7:30am and was present in the police station till 9:30am.”
Ranveer Singh will next be seen in Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani and Rohit Shetty’s Cirkus.
