Case Against Bhajji, Yuvi & Raina for Mocking the Disabled
A top representative of India’s differently-abled community is up in arms after the former World Cup winners’ exposed antics.
Former Team India cricketers Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina find themselves stumped by the filing of a police case against them for allegedly making fun of India’s physically-disabled community. A controversial video of the trio apparently limping to the Bollywood number Tauba Tauba went viral, causing quite a ruckus.
The dance moves in bad taste and the furore that ensued prompted Arman Ali, who is the Executive Director of the National Council for Promotion of Employment for Disabled (NCPEDP), to lodge the complaint. The outraged Mr. Ali did this at the Amar Colony Police Station in the Indian capital of New Delhi for breaching of the Information Technology Act. This, given that the video in question had been posted on social media platform Instagram.
The accused were captured on camera in celebration mode after winning the final of the Champions Trophy exhibition tournament in the UK, against Pakistan, on Saturday, July 13th. They were apparently gyrating in a limp manner to the hit song, which features in the recent Bollywood release Bad Newz, to demonstrate the toll that playing such a tournament took on their middle-aged bodies.
However, Mr Ali has not taken kindly to the playful jig stating that the blighted three have dealt an “insult to the more than 10 crore disabled people of India”. The offended director went on to single out Harbhajan Singh, stating that such behaviour was unbecoming of a Member of Parliament and that instead he should be spreading awareness about the differently-abled in India. No reaction has come from the trio, but it is clear that they are currently on the back foot.
