Pune cops add sedition in PFI pro-Pak slogan case

September 25, 2022 19:46

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The Pune police on Sunday added the sedition charge in connection with the alleged raising of pro-Pakistan slogans during a protest organised by the Popular Front of India in the city, officials said.

The police had registered a case against 60-70 suspected PFI activists for unlawful assembly in connection with the protest held outside the district collector's office on Friday.

A Bundgarden police station officer said they have added sections 109 (An act committed in consequence of abetment), 120B (Criminal conspiracy), 124A (Punishment for sedition), 153 A and B (Promoting enmity between different groups) of the Indian Penal Code in the First Information Report.

"We have already registered cases against activists of PFI on Friday. Today (Sunday), we added new sections in the matter and further investigation is going on," said Pratap Mankar, senior inspector, Bundgarden police station. Notably, the Supreme Court in May put on hold the colonial-era penal law on sedition till an "appropriate' government forum re-examines it and directed the Centre and states to not register any fresh FIR invoking the offence.

A video had surfaced on social media, which purportedly shows that the "Pakistan Zindabad" slogan was raised a couple of times when the agitating PFI activists were being bundled into a police vehicle. -- PTI

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