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Uttarakhand Police books Yati Narasimhanand in Haridwar hate speech case

Updated on: 01 January,2022 06:09 PM IST  |  Mumbai
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Narasimhanand is the fifth person to be named in a FIR that was filed four days after the event and only after public calls for action

Uttarakhand Police books Yati Narasimhanand in Haridwar hate speech case

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A hate speech case has been registered against Yati Narasimhanand for organizing a ‘Dharma Sansad’ in Haridwar last month for urging people to take up arms against Muslims and calling for a genocide.


Narasimhanand is the fifth person to be named in a FIR that was filed four days after the event and only after public calls for action.


As per an NDTV report, the others named in the FIR are Sagar Sindhu Maharaj, a woman identified as 'Sadhvi Annapurna' and a man named Dharam Das, as well as a Wasim Rizvi aka Jitendra Tyagi. All five have been charged with promoting enmity between religious groups and defiling a place of worship.


Clips from the event - held from December 17 to 20 - were circulated on social media and drew sharp criticism from former military chiefs, activists and even tennis legend Martina Navratilova.

Apart from the events at Delhi and Haridwar, other Hindu religious leaders made similarly disturbing speeches at another 'Dharma Sansad' in Chhattisgarh's Raipur last month, at which a Kalicharan Maharaj declared that the aim of Islam is to capture the nation through politics.

A police case has been filed against him.

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