Assam Police has registered a suo moto case of sedition against an Assamese filmmaker who had openly sought help from leader of banned Ulfa-I, Paresh Barua, to ask film distributors not to take his film off screens to make way for the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer 'Raees' and Hrithik Roshan's 'Kaabil' last week.

Police were waiting for an individual or organisation to file an FIR, but when that did not happen, it chose to take up the suo moto case.