Yesterday Delhi police filed a report in a court on a man’s complaint seeking registration of a criminal case against Bollywood actor John Abraham for allegedly posing indecently in a photograph published in a Hindi daily recently. An action taken report was submitted on behalf of the Station House Officer of Motinagar police station in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Ashish Aggarwal.

The court, however, put the matter for September one for giving complainant C M Dua an opportunity to put forward arguments in the matter. Dua, who runs a NGO, sought registration of a FIR against model-turned-actor Abraham, the publisher and the editor of the daily.

The court had on July seven asked the SHO, Motinagar, to file an action taken report in the matter since the complaint alleged commission of cognisable offences under Section 292 and 294 (relating to spread of obscene material) of the IPC.

The complainant had alleged that he was appalled to find the magzine supplement of the daily dated June 11 carrying a “nude” photograph of Abraham at the study desk of his children. Dua, through his counsel R Chhabra, had claimed the police had not taken any action on his complaint, prompting him to approach the court.