Mumbai: Case Lodged After Man Calls Aditya Thackery 'Baby Penguin' And His Father Uddhav 'Aurangzeb'

A prominent Twitter user Sameet Thakkar has been booked under the charges of obscenity and defamation after he called Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray - Aurangzeb and his son and fellow minister Aditya Thackeray as "baby penguin".

This is the purported tweet which led to a complaint against Thakkar.

It has been speculated that Aditya Thackeray received the nickname "penguin" over Shiv Sena's decision to force the BMC to import penguins for display at the Byculla Zoo despite strong objection by experts. This was dubbed as a pet project of Uddhav and his son Aditya Thackeray.

Thakkar has refused to back down despite the FIR and has doubled down over his comparison of Uddhav Thackeray with Aurangzeb.