A Maharashtra NCP leader on Wednesday filed a private complaint against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut before a magistrate court here, seeking to prosecute her for sedition for her remark describing India's independence in 1947 as 'bheek' or alms.

Yusuf Parmar, national general secretary of the NCP's minority wing, filed the complaint at the magistrate court at suburban Borivli under IPC section 124A (punishment for sedition) and section 2 of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, through his lawyer.