Sedition case against Owaisi for his legal help remarks

July 15, 2016 23:14

A sedition case was on Friday registered against AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi over his statement that he would provide legal aid to five city-based persons, who were recently arrested by NIA on

charges of involvement in an alleged IS terror module.

"It's a court referred matter based on a private complaint. The court directed the Saroor Nagar police to book a case and accordingly the case was booked under section 124A (sedition)," Deputy Commissioner of Police (L B Nagar Zone) Tafseer Iqubal told PTI.

K Karuna Sagar, a practising advocate, had yesterday filed the private complaint in the 11th Metropolitan Magistrate court and sought for directions to the police to register a case under section 124A (sedition) of the Indian

Penal Code.

"We will follow the procedure and investigate and submit a report to the court. We will proceed with investigation," Iqubal said.

In the complaint, Sagar alleged that "the stand of Asaduddin Owaisi and his remarks is boosting the morale of anti-nationals and giving oxygen to terrorists. Owaisi is directly or indirectly helping the ISIS which had come up with a video in which it threatened to target India and this is betrayal of the country".

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