Case registered in Maharashtra against former AMU student Sharjeel Usmani for delivering controversial speech ANI | Updated: Feb 03, 2021 23:11 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 3 (ANI): A case has been registered against Sharjeel Usmani, a former student of Aligarh Muslim University, in Maharashtra for allegedly delivering a controversial speech at the Elgaar Parishad event in Pune on January 30, said state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Wednesday. A case has been registered against Sharjeel Usmani. He is not in Maharashtra and a team of Maharashtra Police has been constituted to catch him, said Deshmukh.
Following a complaint by the Pune regional secretary of Bharatiya Yuva Janta Morcha Pradip Gawade, an FIR was filed against Sharjeel Usmani under Section 153-A of the Indian Penal Code, at the Swargate Police Station in Pune, for his speech at Elgar Parishad. This years event was organised by retired Justice BG Kolse Patil.
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Pune: AMU alumnus Sharjeel Usmani booked over Elgar Parishad speech
The Pune City Police on Tuesday filed an FIR against former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student Sharjeel Usmani in connection with a speech he delivered at an Elgar Parishad event. The Elgar Parishad conclave took place in the city on January 30 this year.
Pune police commissioner Amitabh Gupta siad that a case under section 153 (A) of the IPC (promoting enmity between different groups on the ground religion, etc) was registered against him.Â
Pradip Gavade, a local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, BJP s youth wing, had filed a complaintwith Swargate police station against Usmani. Gawade accused Sharjeel of hurting religious sentiments and using objectionable words against a particular community. Further investigation is underway, Gupta added.
Police denies nod for Elgaar Parishad
Police denies nod for Elgaar Parishad
ByPrachee KulkarniPrachee Kulkarni / Updated: Dec 24, 2020, 06:00 IST
Three years after it was turned into a controversy and despite
permission not being granted for the event in the subsequent two years, the organisers of Elgaar Parishad once again announced their decision to host it, booked a hall and sought permission from the police. However, by late Wednesday evening, the cops turned down their application yet again, this time on the ground of the pandemic, besides law-and-order concerns.
As it happened, even before the authorities could take a decision, the Brahman Mahasangh voiced its objection to the event, harping on the fallout of the last time it was convened. Undeterred, the organisers former judges of
2017 Elgar Parishad Organiser Gets No For Pune Event, Cops Cite Covid 2017 Elgar Parishad Organiser Gets No For Pune Event, Cops Cite Covid Kolse-Patil in his letter seeking permission had stated that the event would be about keeping democracy, freedom and Constitution unrestrained .
Kolse-Patil had sought to organize a cultural event at Ganesh Kala Krida Manch on December 31.
Pune:
Pune police has denied permission for an event that retired judge B G Kolse-Patil, one of the organisers of the December 2017 Elgar Parishad, had planned to hold in the city, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Kolse-Patil had sought to organize a cultural event at Ganesh Kala Krida Manch on December 31.
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