CPI(M) MP John Brittas on Wednesday requested Union Home Minister Amit Shah to take ''swift action'' against the ''mischievous'' teaser of the film 'The Kerala Story' for making allegedly false claims that 32,000 women from the state were converted to Islam and recruited to the terror outfit Islamic State.
The letter comes a day after Kerala police chief Anil Kant directed registration of a case on the complaint against Sudipto Sen's movie 'The Kerala Story'.
Brittas, in his letter, said that the claims in the teaser that the film is about the story of 32,000 women from Kerala who were radicalised to join terror outift ISIS ''is absolutely rubbish and fallacious''.
''Such dissemination of grossly false information may lead to inconceivable repercussions and unrest in the society and the same will amount to defaming the state as well. The false narrative is being massively spread over social media.'' ''It is not only derogatory in nature but also aimed at causing communal divide and tension between various religions, which, therefore, entails serious penal consequences,'' he said in the letter.
The Rajya Sabha member also said that according to news reports back in 2019, the Home Ministry had put the number of women who were radicalised and recruited into ISIS from across the country at 155.
The ground realities are in stark contradiction to what has been claimed in the teaser, he said and added ''such mischievous actions are to be nipped in the bud''.
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