Haridwar Dharma Sansad case: Supreme Court grants three months interim bail to hate speech accused
The Hindu
New Delhi The Supreme Court on May 17 granted three months of interim bail to Jitendra Narayan Tyagi
The Supreme Court on May 17 granted three months of interim bail to Jitendra Narayan Tyagi on medical grounds in connection with the Haridwar Dharma Sansad case involving alleged inflammatory speeches made against Muslims.
A Bench comprising Justices Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath directed Jitendra Narayan Tyagi, formerly known as Wasim Rizvi, to give an undertaking that he would not indulge in hate speech and not give any statement on electronic or digital, or social media.
Jitendra Narayan Tyagi had approached the top court after the Uttarakhand High Court dismissed his bail plea in March this year.
The case against him and others had been lodged on the complaint of Nadeem Ali, a resident of Jwalapur Haridwar at Haridwar Kotwali on January 2, 2022.
He had alleged in his complaint that ‘Dharma Sansad’ or religious parliament was organised in Haridwar by Hindu sages from December 17 to 19 last year and in the garb of this event, the participants were instigated to wage a war against Muslims.
Objectionable words were used against the holy Quran and Prophet Mohammad, Mr. Ali had said in his complaint, adding these provocative statements had later gone viral on social media.
These videos were circulated by Wasim Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi, Yati Narsinghanand, and others, he had alleged.
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