The police have registered a case against Hardik Pandya and K L Rahul and Karan Johar over comments on woman made on a chat-show hosted by Karan Johar.
The two cricketers were made to sit out of the India-Australia ODI series and were also briefly suspended by the BCCI after a row over their comments on "Koffee with Karan" which were not well received by the audiance and thought it to be obscene and sexist.
Luni station house officer Bansi Lal said on Wednesday that the FIR was lodged on the magistrate's court. A local resident D R Meghwal had approached the court seeking an order for the police to register a case against the three men.
The petitioner termed the remarks indecent and said they were made deliberately to increase the popularity of the show. Meghwal in his complaint said that Johar had deliberately presented content that humiliated women. He referred to the content as “promiscuous” and “gender-biased” in nature. Meghwal had last year filed another case against Pandya, complaining about the cricketer's alleged comments on Twitter against Dalit icon B R Ambedkar. However, Pandya had rejected that allegation, saying that the Twitter account did not belong to him.
After the row over the celebrity chat show, Hardik Pandya had apologised for his remarks.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India had called the two players back from the Australia tour and placed them under suspension.The suspension was lifted after the BCCI's Committee of Administrators approached the Supreme Court, asking it to appoint an ombudsman to inquire into the matter.