Kolkata: Police complaint filed against Youtuber Roddur Roy for making Tagore songs' parodies with 'obscene' words
Kolkata/IBNS: Members of Paschim Banga Shikshak Aikya Mukta Mancha, an organization of teachers in West Bengal, on Tuesday lodged a complaint with the Beliaghata Police Station in Kolkata against Youtuber Roddur Roy, who composes parodies of Rabindranath Tagore's songs using 'objectionable' and 'obscene' words, reports said.
According to reports, members of the teachers' organization also asked the police to investigate the matter and to take adequate legal actions against Roddur Roy, who has over 200,000 subscribers in his official Youtube channel.
After registering the FIR, a member of the teachers' forum said that they will lodge complaints against the Youtuber in more police stations soon.
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"We will file complaints in several police stations in all districts of West Bengal very soon against Youtuber Roddur Roy who is intentionally and continuously hurting Bengalis' sentiments by making vulgar parodies of some songs of the legends like R.N. Tagore and Nazrul Islam," the member of Shikshak Aikya Mukta Mancha told IBNS.
"The man has been posting these objectionable parodies on his Youtube channel for last few months, but, unfortunately, the state police have not taken any step against him which should have been taken long ago," he added.
However, a Kolkata Police official said that they were looking into the matter.
Days ago, Rabindra Bharati University (RBU)'s BT Road campus in north Kolkata witnessed a shocking display of cuss words- read vulgar Bengali slangs- by a group of young students, who were later identified as outsiders, on their bodies while celebrating the annual Basanta Utsav (spring festival inspired by Bengali cultural icon Rabindranath Tagore whose song they lampooned).
Later, it was noticed that the youngsters took those cuss and obscene words from a parody of Roddur Roy.
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