New Delhi: Delhi Police today filed in a court in New Delhi the status report on a criminal complaint seeking lodging of FIR against AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi for alleged offences of sedition and causing enmity between different groups.
In the report filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Munish Markan, an official of Karawal Nagar police station said the complainant has not provided it the copy of recording of Mr Owaisi's alleged objectionable statement.
The report filed by sub inspector Manoj Kumar also said complainant Brijesh Chand Shukla, Swaraj Janata Party's national president, has also not brought any person who had heard the alleged remarks given by the leader.
The complainant said he would take his witnesses and the CD of the alleged remarks to the police station.
The complaint alleged that on March 13, Mr Owaisi had voluntarily said that "even if somebody puts a knife at me, I will not say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'" and his expression showed "disaffection and includes disloyalty and all feeling of enmity".
The complaint sought a direction to the police to lodge an FIR against Mr Owaisi for the alleged offences under sections 124A (sedition) and 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race etc) of IPC.
"It is correct that our Constitution does not permit to say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' but the Constitution also does not allow to say 'koi meri gardan par churi rakh de tab bhi mai Bharat Mata Ki Jai nahi bolunga' (even if somebody puts a knife at my neck, I will not say Bharat Mata Ki Jai)," it alleged.
In the report filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Munish Markan, an official of Karawal Nagar police station said the complainant has not provided it the copy of recording of Mr Owaisi's alleged objectionable statement.
The report filed by sub inspector Manoj Kumar also said complainant Brijesh Chand Shukla, Swaraj Janata Party's national president, has also not brought any person who had heard the alleged remarks given by the leader.
The complainant said he would take his witnesses and the CD of the alleged remarks to the police station.
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The complaint alleged that on March 13, Mr Owaisi had voluntarily said that "even if somebody puts a knife at me, I will not say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'" and his expression showed "disaffection and includes disloyalty and all feeling of enmity".
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The complaint sought a direction to the police to lodge an FIR against Mr Owaisi for the alleged offences under sections 124A (sedition) and 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race etc) of IPC.
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"It is correct that our Constitution does not permit to say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' but the Constitution also does not allow to say 'koi meri gardan par churi rakh de tab bhi mai Bharat Mata Ki Jai nahi bolunga' (even if somebody puts a knife at my neck, I will not say Bharat Mata Ki Jai)," it alleged.
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