Complaint against Owaisi for refusing to say 'Bharat Mata ki jai'

March 16, 2016 22:05

A private complaint was today filed in a Hyderabad court seeking direction to police to register a case against AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi over his speech wherein he said he would not chant 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' even if a "knife is put to my throat".

Petitioner Sai Kumar Goud, a businessman, filed a complaint in the court of 20th Metropolitan Magistrate at Malkajgiri alleging that Owaisi's speech was defamatory, and sought direction to the police for registration of an FIR under IPC section 153 A (promoting enmity between different

groups on ground of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc.) and to further investigate the matter.

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