Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday requested activist Sharjeel Usmani to seem earlier than Pune Police for questioning in reference to an FIR lodged towards him for alleged hate speech on the Elgar Parishad conclave held this 12 months. However, the division bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale has additionally requested Police to not take any coercive motion towards him until March 16.
As per stories, the courtroom requested Additional Public (*16*) JP Yagnik to tell police to not take motion towards Usmani till it hears his plea in search of to quash the case. Usmani’s counsel Mihir Desai informed the courtroom his consumer had been summoned by the Police on Wednesday. “He is willing to appear for questioning but he should not be arrested,” information company PTI quoted Desai as saying.
The High Court has additionally directed Usmani to implead the complainant within the case as a respondent to the petition.
An FIR registered towards Sharjeel Usmani on the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow by one Anurag Singh over the video of Usmani’s speech which was posted on YouTube. On the idea of this criticism, a case beneath 124A, 153A, 153A (2), 153B (1) (C), 295A, 298, 504, 505 (1) (B) and 505 (2) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and IT Act has been registered.Â
Soon after, a video of him allegedly utilizing objectionable phrases towards the Hindu neighborhood went viral and demand for stern motion towards him was raised. Even the Maharashtra police have additionally registered a case towards Usmani, a former pupil of Aligarh Muslim University, in reference to the controversial speech.
