Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 3 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to take strict action against Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) alumnus Sharjeel Usmani for his comments on Hindu community during a recent Elgar Parishad event.
Sharjeel Usmani booked in Pune over Elgar speech; Fadnavis demands action for objectionable comments
Sharjeel Usmani booked in Pune over Elgar speech; Fadnavis demands action for objectionable comments
ANI / Updated: Feb 3, 2021, 08:03 IST
The
Bharatiya Janata Party (
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) alumnus
Sharjeel Usmani for his comments on Hindu community during a recent
Elgar Parishad event.
In a letter, the former Chief Minister said that the statement made by Usmani at an event in Pune on January 30 was against the Hindu community and was meant to disrupt communal harmony . The statement made by Sharjeel Usmani at Elgar Parishad event in Pune on 30 January against Hindu community is defamatory, objectionable and is very serious, there is a need for the state government to immediately take strict action on it.. the statement made by him is objectionable and were meant to disrupt the communal harmony, Fadnavis wrote.
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], February 3 (ANI): Pune City Police on Tuesday filed an FIR against former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student Sharjeel Usmani for a speech he delivered at an Elgar Parishad event here.
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.
Updated Jan 14, 2021 · 04:28 pm A file photo of activist Anand Teltumbde. | PTI
Writer and activist Anand Teltumbde, who has been jailed in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case, on Wednesday filed a bail petition before a special National Investigation Agency court, stating that he himself was critical of Maoist ideology,
The Hindu reported.
Teltumbde and several other activists and academicians arrested in the case have been accused of having links with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Teltumbde’s petition said the NIA had not produced any material to show that he was a member of the banned organisation. The activist added that his book