2nd FIR registered in Dharam Sansad case; Rizvi, Yati Narsinghanand booked

Haridwar: A second FIR was registered in the Haridwar

Dharam Sansad

hate speech case against 10 people on Sunday. The accused include Yati Narsinghanand, the event’s organiser, Jitendra Naryan Tyagi (formerly chief of Shia Waqf Board Waseem Rizvi), and eight others. Some of them are already booked in another FIR which had been registered earlier in the case.

Based on the complaint of Nadeem Ali, a resident of Jwalapur in Haridwar, the case was registered under sections 153-A (promoting disharmony, enmity or feelings of hatred between different groups on the grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc) and 298 (deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any person) of IPC.

Senior sub inspector, Jwalapur, Nitesh Sharma told TOI, “We have registered the case and transferred it to the city police station, where a similar case has already been registered and an investigation is underway.”


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