UP cops ask ‘Tandav’ director Ali Abbas Zafar to record statement in Lucknow

A team of Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday visited the Mumbai residence of Ali Abbas Zafar, the director of controversial web series ‘Tandav’, and served a notice to him, asking him to appear before the investigating officer in Lucknow on January 27, an official said.

The UP police team is in city to conduct a probe into the case registered in Lucknow against the makers and cast of the web series, the official said.

“Zafar was not available at his residence when the police team went there and the door of his house was locked. Therefore, they pasted a notice in the premises,” the police official said.