{"id":1330,"date":"2016-01-13T19:52:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T11:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/13\/indian-comedian-kiku-sharda-arrested-for-imitating-guru-turned-actor-gurmeet-rahim-singh\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T19:52:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T11:52:30","slug":"indian-comedian-kiku-sharda-arrested-for-imitating-guru-turned-actor-gurmeet-rahim-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/13\/indian-comedian-kiku-sharda-arrested-for-imitating-guru-turned-actor-gurmeet-rahim-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian comedian Kiku Sharda arrested for imitating guru-turned-actor Gurmeet Rahim Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gettyimages-488572140\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzEzLzU1L0dldHR5SW1hZ2VzLjZkNWE1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/be6ac6ac\/67f\/GettyImages-488572140.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Indian+comedian+Kiku+Sharda+arrested+for+imitating+guru-turned-actor+Gurmeet+Rahim+Singh&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F13%2Fkiku-sharda-arrest-gurmeet-rahim-singh%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F13%2Fkiku-sharda-arrest-gurmeet-rahim-singh%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Indian comedian and television actor Kiku Sharda has been arrested for imitating self-styled spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, famous for his films and rock music videos, and hurting the religious sentiments of his followers<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/08\/ms-dhoni-vishnu-warrant\/\">India&#8217;s cricket captain MS Dhoni gets an arrest warrant for posing as a god on a magazine cover<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sharda was arrested in Mumbai by police from the north Indian state of Haryana, where Singh&#8217;s religious sect Dera Sacha Sauda commands a huge following. Singh had filed a case against Sharda after he mimicked him in an episode of the popular television show <em>Comedy Nights with Kapil<\/em> in late December. Sharda had posted photographs of himself dressed as Singh, but later tweeted an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kikusharda\/status\/681285380335874050\" title=\"apology\">apology<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/13\/kiku-sharda-arrest-gurmeet-rahim-singh\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/india\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">India<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/religion\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Religion<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/indian-television\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Indian Television<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452685024' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452685024'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/FAYgg8pPOdI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian comedian and television actor Kiku Sharda has been arrested for imitating self-styled spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, famous for his films and rock music videos, and hurting the religious sentiments of his followers See also: India&#8217;s cricket captain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/13\/indian-comedian-kiku-sharda-arrested-for-imitating-guru-turned-actor-gurmeet-rahim-singh\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,985,984,732],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-india","tag-indian-television","tag-religion","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}