Plea seeks FIR against Owaisi for not saying 'Bharat Mata ki jai'

March 19, 2016 18:30

A criminal complaint was filed on Friday in a Delhi court seeking registration of FIR against All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen President Asaduddin Owaisi for alleged offences of sedition and causing enmity between different classes.

The complaint was filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Munish Markan and it would come up for hearing on March 22.

It alleged that on March 13, Owaisi had voluntarily said "even if somebody puts a knife at me, I will not say 'Bharat Mata ki jai' and his expression showed "disaffection and includes disloyalty and all feeling of enmity".

The complaint, filed by Swaraj Janata Party's national president Brijesh Chand Shukla, sought a direction to the SHO of Karawal Nagar police station to lodge an FIR against Owaisi for the alleged offences under sections 124A (sedition) and 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race etc) of the IPC.

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