 The Cellular Operators Association of India has filed a complaint against the movie

because certain scenes in the teaser and trailer give a false impression that mobile
phones and mobile towers are bad for the environment and living things. Additionally,
it requested a re-examination of the movie and claimed that the portrayal of towers
and mobile services was made up and not based on any real events.
 Cellular network operators filing a complaint against the movie for promoting
“obscurantist and anti-scientific attitudes against mobile phones, towers and mobile
services."
 In the movie, there was a statement said by Akshay Kumar’s character Pakshi Rajan
“Every person who owns a cell phone is a murderer” and violates the Section 505 of
IPC.
 In movie Robot 2.0, Akshay Kumar plays the role of a crazed ornithologist who
blames electromagnetic field (EMF) emissions from mobile phones for the death of
animals and birds. ( Supported by some of the country’s premier research institutes,
the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and the Department of
Telecommunications (DoT) have maintained that cellphone radiation is not harmful.
However, the environment ministry has in the past asked the DoT to install towers
such that they cause minimal harm to humans.)
 The statement said, “It alleges this is defamatory to COAI and its members,
endangers public order, presents anti-scientific attitudes, constitutes offences
including under various sections of the IPC and is in violation of the provisions of the
Cinematograph Act, 1952 (Section 4(1)(iii) 4[(iii) direct the applicant to carry out
such excisions or modifications in the film as it thinks necessary before
sanctioning the film for public exhibition under any of the foregoing clauses; or]
(iv) refuse to sanction the film for public exhibition.). It is against the public
interest as it constitutes offences under section 268 (public nuisance), section 505
(statements conducing to public mischief) and section 499 (defamation) of the IPC
and stands to prejudice the ongoing proceedings before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of
India over whether or not mobile towers have any harmful effects.”