Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan has attracted fresh controversy over an alleged skirmish with security guards following his team’s victory over the Mumbai Indians on Wednesday.
The Mumbai Cricket Association officials have lodged a formal police complaint and will meet on Friday to discuss what action is to be taken against the Bollywood actor.
Both parties have accused each other of misbehaviour that provoked the spat, with Khan claiming that MCA officials manhandled a few children, including his own, who had entered the field after the match. “I said a few things in anger. I was one and they were 20-25 officials and they were extremely rude. When I tried to answer them, they hid behind others,” the actor said, adding, “There was nothing illegal, I was not on the pitch. I know the rules.”
The MCA alleged that the actor was in an inebriated state and tried to force his way onto the ground after the match and when he was prevented from doing so, he got abusive and pushed the security personnel. An MCA member, who also happened to be an assistant commissioner of police, said Khan smelled of alcohol. “He continuously used foul, filthy language towards officials who tried to pacify him,” MCA treasurer Ravi Savant said on Thursday. Mr Savant said the MCA would put the proposed lifetime ban on paper at the managing committee meeting on Thursday and get all formalities completed, with a majority support with the MCA.
However, IPL governing council chairman Rajiv Shukla did not corroborate Mr Savant’s statement about life ban. “How can you ban a franchise owner? The MCA officials are just angry right now. It will all be sorted out. Let this thing cool down,” Mr Shukla told this newspaper.
Khan categorically denied that he had misbehaved or was drunk, but said he was reacting to the “obnoxious” and “unpardonable” behaviour of officials at the stadium.
The Marine Drive police has registered a non-cognisable complaint against Khan and three others. “Khan and three others have been booked under Sections 323 and 504 of the IPC,” said DCP Nisar Tamboli, Mumbai police spokesperson.
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Transcript of SRK row
SRK: ...Do you want to arrest me? Arrest me and take me now.
Other side: Use your language properly.
SRK: You use your language properly.
Other side: Ok?
SRK: You use your language properly.
Someone shouts SRK’s name, tries to pacify him.
Someone shouts: Le ke chal isse (take him away).
Someone says: Police ko bulao (Call the police)
SRK: Kaun tha woh jo dubara ... Hai ***** ka **** (Who was that...?).
Someone shouts: Everybody out, everybody out.
Other side: Inko baat karne ki tameej nahi hai (He doesn’t have the manners to talk properly).
SRK: Who’s saying to take me away, I stay here. Someone whispers
to SRK.
SRK: Which officer?
SRK: Tell your official, wherever he’s from... BCCI to tell him to shut the **** up, don’t talk to me like that... wherever you are from, sir. Tell the ****** not to talk to me like that... See it is his fault...Nobody will speak (shouting).
Someone says: Nobody will speak. C’mon take it easy.
SRK: Kya bola? Haath lagayenge? (What did you say, You will beat me?).
Someone: Laga ke batayun? (Shall I beat you up first?). Someone: Jyada baat mat kar ae (Don’t talk too much).
SRK: Arre tu beech main se hath naa. Door se ghar mein bolna, paas aake bol. (You, get out of here. Talk from afar at home. Come near me and say what you have to).
Someone: Ae bewada (You drunkard).
SRK: ...Tu peeche se mat bolna... Samne se aake bol ae peeli shirt ****... Yahin gaad doonga **** (Don’t talk to me from behind. Come in front of me, you yellow shirt. I will bury you here).
— PTI