Singer Sona Mohapatra files complaint with Mumbai police against threat from Madariya Sufi Foundation

Singer Sona Mohapatra has submitted a complaint letter to the Mumbai police against alleged intimidation by the Madariya Sufi Foundation for being issued an alleged threat notice via email from the Madariya Sufi Foundation demanding to take down a music video. In her tweets to the Mumbai Police, Mohapatra tweeted, “The Madariya foundation along with the agreement of the Nizamuddin Dargah have an issue with the description of my Tori Surat music video, “earthy incarnations of the feminine Divine” and with “a sleeveless dress and body exposing dancers”. Basically with everything woman & free.

According to Mohapatra, “The Sufi Madariya foundation has also called me a ‘regular offender’ & says that they find another fiveyear-old video of me singing a Sufiana KalamPiya Se Naina on coke studio insulting Islam because I’m ‘dressed exposing my body’ & playing westernised music. I have received a threatening notice from the Madariya Sufi Foundation to remove my music video Tori Surat from all communication mediums. They claim that the video is vulgar.” In her complaint to the Santacruz police station, Mohapatra stated that she had received a threatening email notice from the Madariya Sufi Foundation.

According to Shantanu Pawar, SPI, Santacruz police station, “Mohapatra has submitted a complaint letter. We are conducting an inquiry. An FIR is yet to be filed.”