Press club event: Court reserves order on Gilani's bail plea
March 19, 2016  13:38
The Delhi police today opposed the bail plea of ex-Delhi University lecturer S A R Gilani, arrested under sedition charges in connection with a Press Club event here, saying the event was "an attack on the soul of India" and it was "contempt of court." 

Additional Sessions Judge reserved the order for today itself after the arguments in which Gilani's counsel said that there were no evidences against him that he raised the alleged anti-Indian slogans, adding that criticising Supreme Court judgement was not contempt of court. "Kashmir is an integral part of the nation. But they were celebrating the persons, Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat, who were convicted by Supreme Court. They were terming them as martyrs which was affecting the people and it was contempt of court. "If he had not liked the SC judgement, he could have thought in his mind and within the four walls of the his house. 

But he had assembled people for the meeting in the heart of the Capital for that purpose which was an attack on the soul of India," police said while opposing the bail plea. 

Gilani's counsel, however, sought bail for him, claiming that as per the FIR itself, the people raising slogans there were stopped by office bearers of the Press Club of India and asked to leave the venue to which they agreed to.
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