The Hyderabad Police on Saturday filed a primary data report in opposition to Hindutva supremacist Yati Narsinghanand Giri for making an allegedly derogatory comment about Prophet Muhammad, reported India Immediately.
Narsinghanand, who’s the chief priest of the Dasna Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh, has additionally been booked in a number of FIRs in Uttar Pradesh. He was detained by the Ghaziabad Police on Saturday for hurting Muslim non secular sentiments, reported The Indian Specific.
The FIR in Hyderabad was lodged on a grievance by All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi. Narsinghanand was booked below sections of the Info Expertise Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
In Uttar Pradesh, the non secular chief has been booked below the legal regulation for “deliberately hurting non secular sentiments” and for “actions that hurt nationwide integration”.
Narsinghanand purportedly made the comment, which has been described as hate speech, throughout a sermon on September 29.
After a video of the sermon started circulating on-line, Muslims teams protested in a number of cities in Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra and Telangana.
In Maharashtra’s Amravati, at the least 21 police personnel had been injured on Friday night time in mob violence triggered by Narsinghanand’s remark, reported PTI. The protestors had been demanding an FIR in opposition to the Hindutva chief, who has a historical past of constructing anti-Muslim feedback.
“An enormous mob…got here to the Nagpuri Gate police station round 8.15 pm to press for his or her demand of registration of a case in opposition to Yati Narsinghanand Maharaj of Ghaziabad,” Amravati Police Commissioner Navin Chandra Reddy informed reporters. “The in-charge of the police station informed the mob that one FIR had already been registered in opposition to the seer, following which they went again.”
Two years in the past, Narsinghanand was booked in Aligarh for calling for the demolition of madrasas and the Aligarh Muslim College.
In January 2022, Narsinghanand was arrested after he referred to as for the genocide of Muslims at a non secular conclave in Haridwar. He bought bail within the case in February 2022 on the situation that he wouldn’t take part any gathering “which goals in direction of creating variations between communities”.
On April 17, 2022, he delivered one other inflammatory speech at a non secular conclave in Himachal Pradesh’s Una district. He requested Hindus to have extra youngsters to make sure that India doesn’t change into an “Islamic nation”.