Tag: pro-Pakistan slogans

  • PFI protest slogan video: Pune police takes U-turn, says sedition charge not invoked

    By PTI

    PUNE: In a U-turn, the Pune police on Sunday evening denied adding the sedition charge in connection with a case against the Popular Front of India (PFI) activists and the alleged raising of pro-Pakistan slogans during a protest organised here by the outfit.

    Earlier, senior inspector Pratap Mankar of the Bundgarden police station, where the case has been registered, said section 124A (punishment for sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been added in the case, but the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone II) Sagar Patil later made it clear that the charge has not been slapped.

    Police had registered the case against 60-70 suspected PFI activists for unlawful assembly in connection with the protest held outside the district collector’s office on Friday.

    Mankar said the police have added IPC sections 124A (sedition), 109 (act committed in conse­quence of abetment), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 153 A and B (promoting enmity between different groups) in the First Information Report (FIR).

    However, DCP Patil later said, “We did not add section 124A in the case. The Supreme Court order says this section cannot be invoked as one case pertaining to this is already going on in the court.”

    The apex court had in May put on hold the colonial-era penal law on sedition till an “appropriate” government forum re-examines it and directed the Centre and states not to register any fresh FIR invoking the offence.

    A video had surfaced on social media, which purportedly shows that the “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan was raised a couple of times when the agitating PFI activists were being bundled into a police vehicle on Friday.

    The protest was organised against the recent nationwide raids on the outfit and the arrest of its activists. During the protest, the police detained around 40 protesters.

    Patil said earlier in the day that some videos were circulating on social media and a thorough investigation was being conducted.

    “The videos which were available on social media will be sent for forensic investigation and we will take strict action,” he said.

    Earlier on Sunday, Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis directed the Pune police commissioner to slap the sedition charge.

    “We do not support such slogans. The anti-India slogans will not be tolerated in the state as well as in the country. I have instructed the Pune police commissioner to file a case invoking sedition in the matter,” he told reporters in Pune.

    The raising of controversial slogans had led to a huge outrage, with leaders from BJP and MNS demanding stringent action. Congress had demanded a ban on organisations like PFI.

    In a massive crackdown on the PFI, multi-agency teams spearheaded by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had, on Thursday, arrested 106 leaders and activists of the radical Islamic outfit in near-simultaneous raids in 15 states for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country.

    Maharashtra and Karnataka accounted for 20 arrests each, Tamil Nadu (10), Assam (9), Uttar Pradesh (8), Andhra Pradesh (5), Madhya Pradesh (4), Puducherry and Delhi (3 each) and Rajasthan (2).

    PUNE: In a U-turn, the Pune police on Sunday evening denied adding the sedition charge in connection with a case against the Popular Front of India (PFI) activists and the alleged raising of pro-Pakistan slogans during a protest organised here by the outfit.

    Earlier, senior inspector Pratap Mankar of the Bundgarden police station, where the case has been registered, said section 124A (punishment for sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been added in the case, but the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone II) Sagar Patil later made it clear that the charge has not been slapped.

    Police had registered the case against 60-70 suspected PFI activists for unlawful assembly in connection with the protest held outside the district collector’s office on Friday.

    Mankar said the police have added IPC sections 124A (sedition), 109 (act committed in conse­quence of abetment), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 153 A and B (promoting enmity between different groups) in the First Information Report (FIR).

    However, DCP Patil later said, “We did not add section 124A in the case. The Supreme Court order says this section cannot be invoked as one case pertaining to this is already going on in the court.”

    The apex court had in May put on hold the colonial-era penal law on sedition till an “appropriate” government forum re-examines it and directed the Centre and states not to register any fresh FIR invoking the offence.

    A video had surfaced on social media, which purportedly shows that the “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan was raised a couple of times when the agitating PFI activists were being bundled into a police vehicle on Friday.

    The protest was organised against the recent nationwide raids on the outfit and the arrest of its activists. During the protest, the police detained around 40 protesters.

    Patil said earlier in the day that some videos were circulating on social media and a thorough investigation was being conducted.

    “The videos which were available on social media will be sent for forensic investigation and we will take strict action,” he said.

    Earlier on Sunday, Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis directed the Pune police commissioner to slap the sedition charge.

    “We do not support such slogans. The anti-India slogans will not be tolerated in the state as well as in the country. I have instructed the Pune police commissioner to file a case invoking sedition in the matter,” he told reporters in Pune.

    The raising of controversial slogans had led to a huge outrage, with leaders from BJP and MNS demanding stringent action. Congress had demanded a ban on organisations like PFI.

    In a massive crackdown on the PFI, multi-agency teams spearheaded by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had, on Thursday, arrested 106 leaders and activists of the radical Islamic outfit in near-simultaneous raids in 15 states for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country.

    Maharashtra and Karnataka accounted for 20 arrests each, Tamil Nadu (10), Assam (9), Uttar Pradesh (8), Andhra Pradesh (5), Madhya Pradesh (4), Puducherry and Delhi (3 each) and Rajasthan (2).

  • Gurugram man booked for raising pro-Pakistan slogans, wife says he is under depression

    By ANI

    GURUGRAM: Haryana Police on Tuesday filed an FIR against a man for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans from his apartment’s balcony in Gurugram.

    According to police, the FIR was filed against one Anwar Syed Faizullah Hashmi on the complaint of his neighbours.

    “Case for raising ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan in the society has been registered under Section 153 B of Indian Penal Code (IPC) in Rajendra Park police station against Anwar Syed Faizullah Hashmi. The accused is absconding and search for him is underway,” said Haryana police in a statement.

    On Saturday, a video went viral on social media, purportedly of a residential society in Gurugram, in which the accused was asking a child to raise pro-Pakistan slogans.

    Dhiraj Setia, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Gurugram told ANI that police received the complaint from the resident of “Imperial Gardens Society” in Gurugram on Sunday, with a video of clipping of the man raising “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans on the balcony of his house.

    Meanwhile, the man’s wife, in a complaint against the neighbours, has told police that her husband is undergoing treatment for depression.

    “Wife of the accused has also given a complaint of harassment against the residents of the society at Dhankot police post, in which it has been said that the people of the society came to her house and started threatening her unnecessarily. She has also filed another complaint against her husband for domestic violence. She said the accused is in depression and is undergoing treatment,” said the DCP.

    “We are also investigating this matter whether Anwar is really a victim of depression or not, his medical history is also being checked,” he added.

  • Pro-Pakistan slogans raised at Muharram gathering in MP, six arrested

    By Express News Service

    BHOPAL: Pro-Pakistan slogans were allegedly raised at a Muharram gathering in Geeta Colony of Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain on Thursday night.

    With Hindu religious leaders demanding action against the culprits for raising ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans, the Jiwaji Ganj police in Ujjain booked at least 10 youths who were seen raising the slogans in a video that went viral. 

    “So far 10 persons (aged between 20 and 25 years) have been booked u/s 124A (sedition) and 153B (imputation, assertion prejudicial to national integration). Out of 10, only six have been arrested. We are in the process of identifying others who could have been involved in the incident,” additional SP (ASP-Ujjain) Amrendra Singh said on Friday.

    The incident drew sharp reactions from the right-wing outfits and their leaders.

    Hindu seer and the Mahamandaleshwar of Awahan Akshra, Acharya Shekhar (Atuleshanand Saraswati), while welcoming the action by Ujjain police against those involved in the alleged incident, demanded capital punishment for such anti-social and anti-national elements.

    He said that the incident has happened just a few days after Afghanistan was captured by the Taliban. 

    As per police sources, pro-Pakistan slogans were raised at Geeta Colony during a Muharram gathering near the place where a Tazia was kept.