Katju booked for sedition for comments on Bihar

September 28, 2016 18:30

As the row over his remarks on Bihar raged on, former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju has been booked on sedition charge follow ng a complaint by a JD-U MLC againt his online post that Kashmir should be offered to Pakistan on the condition that it takes Bihar too.

Another complaint was also filed today in the district court against Katju, who hit back at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his critical remarks and churned out more taunting posts.

Katju has been booked under 124-A (sedition) and other sections of IPC, according to SHO of Shashtrinagar police station Birendra Prasad rpt Prasad.

JD-U MLC and its state spokesman Neeraj Kumar had last evening lodged a complaint in the police station here against Katju seeking his prosecution for alleged sedition .

Meanwhile, lawyer, Arvind Kumar, filed a petition in the court of Patna Chief Judicial Magistrate Om Prakash against Katju.

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