A hate speech case against EFF leader Julius Malema continues on Wednesday in the Equality Court which is expected to hear a witness who was assaulted during a clash between parents and EFF supporters outside a school in Cape Town.
Mumbai-based Islamic preacher Mufti Salman Azhari was on Thursday taken under preventive detention by the Gujarat police soon after he was granted bail in a hate speech case registered against him in the state's Arvalli district. Mufti Salman Azhari Hate Speech Case: Mumbai-Based Cleric Granted Bail in Third Inflammatory Speech Case in Gujarat, Put in Preventive Detention.
The district combined court here on Monday ordered state BJP president K Annamalai to appear before it on March 2 in connection with a hate speech case filed against him by Salem-based activist Piyush Manush.
In the Junagadh case, while opposing Azhari's bail plea on Wednesday, LCB in charge Inspector J J Patel told chief judicial magistrate that Rs 52 lakh were deposited in the bank account of Al-Amaan Education and Welfare Trust, run by the cleric, in 2023.
Maulana Mufti Salman Azhari has become embroiled in a fresh controversy as the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against him in Kutch, Gujarat. Mufti Salman Azhari Hate Speech Case: Islamic Preacher Faces Legal Heat; Second FIR Lodged in Gujarat’s Kutch.