Uttarakhand Police file FIR in Haridwar hate speech case
The Hindu
Statements called for violence against Muslims
A day after videos of Hindutva leader Yati Narsinghanand calling on Hindu youth to become “Prabhakaran” and “Bhindranwale” went viral, the Uttarakhand Police on Thursday filed an FIR against “Wasim Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi” and others involved.
Ashok Kumar, DGP, said the police had received a complaint and filed an FIR under Section 153A of the IPC (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion) related to the statements made at the recent Dharam Sansad event in Haridwar. The accused named in the FIR, Wasim Rizvi, was a former chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Central Shia Waqf Board, who .
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