Why was Sonakshi's name not included in AIB FIR, questions Mahesh Bhatt

Mumbai: In continuing trouble for the organisers and participants of the AIB Knockout show which raised the hackles of moral brigade, a court ordered police to register a first information report (FIR).

The event, staged in Mumbai in December, was attended by 4,000 people and the audience included Johar's mother, Sonakshi Sinha, Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone among others. The FIR has already been filed in Pune, while Maharashtra government has announced an inquiry.

A social activist filed a petition before additional chief metropolitan magistrate CS Baviskar in Mumbai court and following the order, FIR was registered against 14 people involved in the AIB Roast including Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt, Mahesh Bhatt has questioned why Sonakshi Sinha was not named in the FIR. He reportedly said that Sonakshi's name was not mentioned because she is the daughter of BJP MP.

Speaking to CNN-IBN, the filmmaker said, "If being part of 4000 people in the audience and laughing is a crime, then why have the other attendees not been named in the FIR. Sonakshi Sinha, who is the daughter of person (Shatrughan Sinha, BJP MP) who is part of the present dispensation was also in the audience, why was she not named in the FIR? Certain forces are orchestrating this series of events. You have to be naive not to see that."

The AIB roast video was pulled down from YouTube after it sparked a controversy for 'obscene content'.