Bengaluru: Rajdeep Sardesai, Shashi Tharoor among seven booked for sedition

BENGALURU: Parappana Agrahara police on Friday registered a criminal case for sedition among other charges against seven people, including senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai and former Union minister and MP Shashi Tharoor, based on a complaint filed by a private firm employee.
The complainant, Rakesh BS, 37, alleged that tweets by the accused incited hatred among the public and endangered national integrity.Rakesh stated he had heard that journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Ananth Nath and Vinod K Jose and MP Tharoor had tweeted saying that a farmer had died in police firing during the tractor parade in Delhi on January 26.
He alleged their tweets resulted in hatred, creating enmity among religions and hurting emotions of the religious. Rakesh asked police to take necessary action against the accused for posting false information in their tweets.
Police have registered a case under IPC sections 153a (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language etc), 153b (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), 295a (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings), 298 (uttering, words with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings), 506 (criminal intimidation), 124a (sedition), 504 (whoever intentionally insults and gives provocation) against the suspects.