Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Singer, Presenter
- NAME: Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan
- BORN: 14 March 1965
- ALMA MATER: JB Petit School, Mumbai |St. Anne’s High School, Mumbai | Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai | Narsee Monjee College, Mumbai
- OCCUPATION: Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Singer, Presenter
Aamir Khan is a Bollywood actor. He has created and hosted the television talk show Satyamev Jayate, through which he highlights sensitive social issues in India, occasionally influencing the Indian parliament. His work as a social reformer, tackling issues ranging from poverty and education to abuse and discrimination, earned him an appearance on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world.
- LEGAL BACKGROUND:
- Aamir Khan & Ors. v. State of Gujarat & Ors. | Gujarat High Court | Special Criminal Application No. 684 of 2008 and Criminal Misc. Application No. 9333 of 2010 in Special Criminal Application No. 684 of 2008 | 08-05-2015 |
=> It was alleged that the petitioner committed offences punishable under sections 2(16)(a)(b), 9, 27(4), 39 and 48(a) of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. Though the permission was refused for filming of Chinkara in film “Lagaan” to Aamir Khan Productions Private Ltd., the responsible officers, i.e. petitioners herein have illegally caught Chinkara from forest and kept it in their possession and made it run so as to shoot the film and at the end of shooting killed Chinkara and thereby prima-facie committed the offence. The court held that there is no evidence, the complaint is false, frivolous, imaginary and absurd which is required to be quashed and set aside in exercise of inherent powers under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
- Criminal Cases were filed against Aamir Khan in Kanpur, Bihar and Bilaspur under 124A of IPC over the nude poster of his movie “PK” | 25-11-2015 & 17-03-2020
- PIL for Obscenity was filed (Rejected) | Supreme Court of India | 14-07-2014