Case against Khader will take its own legal course: Ravi

MANGALURU: Minister for Kannada and culture and tourism C T Ravi on Thursday said that state government will allow the law to take its own course about sedition case registered against former minister

UT Khader

. "The government will not indulge in political witch-hunt, but at the same time is determined to go after anyone who breaks the law with the full force of law bearing down on them, irrespective of their status in society", Ravi warned.


Asserting that he stands by every single word uttered in reaction to a query that media asked him about Khader’s reported statement that the state could burn if the government went ahead in implemented Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens’ here, Ravi told reporters that Khader’s statement at a public protest rally hwas the cue that stoked violence in the city. "I have seen clippings of Khader’s statement on WhatsApp," Ravi said.

There is a difference between giving a ‘warning’ to making an outright ‘provocative’ statement, Ravi said considering direction that chief minister BS Yediyurappa gave to all his ministerial colleagues following violence in the city. Extending his argument further, Ravi said, "

Lord Hanuman

did not go to Lanka to set it on fire. But, Hanuman’s tail was set on fire and entire Lanka burnt in the process. You can’t provoke a community and watch the fun."

Ravi also urged the government to rethink a move by the previous government to withdraw en masse cases registered against PFI/SDPI activists. “When a government withdraws case against habitual offenders, it only demoralises the police,” Ravi said, adding that there is difference between withdrawing cases against such hardcore offenders to withdrawing cases against people involved in people’s movement where cases are booked ‘politically.’

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