Sedition case against Bijnor’s RLD candidate Neeraj Chaudhary over poll slogans
The Hindu
Polling will be held in Bijnor in the second phase on February 14.
A sedition case has been registered against a Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) candidate from Bijnor over alleged pro-Pakistan slogans during campaigning for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, police said on February 5.
According to the police, a few days ago, a video of door-to-door campaigning of the RLD candidate from Bijnor Neeraj Chaudhary went viral in which it is heard that some people are allegedly raising “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans.
When contacted, Station House Officer (SHO) of Kotwali Bijnor Radhay Shyam told PTI, “A case of sedition has been registered against the RLD candidate from Bijnor Assembly constituency Neeraj Chaudhary. When he was undertaking door-to-door campaigning, some people accompanying him allegedly raised ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans.” “A case has been registered against Neeraj Chaudhary and 20-25 others under various Sections of the IPC including 124-A (sedition) and 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and the Epidemic Diseases Act,” he added.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.