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The FIR against Shrajeel Usmani accuses him of hurting religious sentiments’ through a speech he delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave. Activist Sharjeel Usmani | Photo: Twitter@SharjeelUsmani
Pune: Activist Sharjeel Usmani is likely to appear before the Pune Police for interrogation in connection with an FIR lodged against him for an alleged hate speech he delivered during the Elgar Parishad conclave held on January 30 in Pune.
An FIR was registered against Usmani, an alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim University, by the Swargate police station in Pune on February 2 under Section 153(A) of the Indian Penal Code (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race and so on.
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Advocate Vineet Jindal seeks criminal contempt charges against Rahul Gandhi for remarks on judiciary ANI | Updated: Mar 04, 2021 22:33 IST
New Delhi [India], March 4 (ANI): Advocate Vineet Jindal has written a letter to the Attorney General (AG), KK Venugopal and requested him to give his consent to initiate criminal contempt of court proceedings against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly speaking against the Indian judiciary and disgracing its dignity. This country has a legal system where one had 100 per cent independence in voicing his/her opinion. It is very clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is inserting its people in all these institutions/systems. It is very obvious! They are taking away the institutional framework of this country, Jindal quoted an excerpt of Rahul Gandhi s recent interview in the letter.
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Justice Katju s expert opinion is less than objective: UK Court on Nirav Modi s Extradition
The UK Westminster Court said that Justice Katju had deposed before it as an expert witness for Nirav Modi, opposing the Government of India’s plea for extradition on the ground that he was unlikely to receive a “free and fair trial in India”.
| 27 Feb 2021 2:27 AM GMT
LONDON: Even as the UK s West Minister s Magistrate Court on Thursday cleared the decks for the extradition of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi in connection with the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, District Judge Samuel Gooze came down heavily on former Supreme Court Judge Markandey Katju, saying Gooze attached little weight to Katju s expert opinion as it was less than objective and reliable .