
Actor Prakash Raj has been booked in a police station of Karnataka’s Bagalkot district over a social media post, in which he allegedly mocked India’s ambitious third lunar mission– Chandrayaan-3, police said on Tuesday. “A complaint has been filed against actor Prakash Raj for his post on the Chandrayaan-3 mission,” police said. “Hindu organisations leaders filed a complaint against the actor in Banahatti police station of Bagalkote district and have demanded action,” they added. The veteran actor on Sunday took to microblogging site X, sharing a caricature of a man in a shirt and lungi pouring tea. Sharing the picture, he wrote, āFirst view just arrived from Chandrayaan .. #VikramLander #justasking.ā Prakash Raj has been facing heavy backlash since then with people saying that the Chandrayaan-3 mission is linked to the country’s pride. Faced with social media outrage Prakash Raj clarified on X that his comments were only intended as a joke.

