Yati Narsinghanand (second from proper) is co-accused in Haridwar hate speech case. (File)
New Delhi:
Yati Narsinghanand, the non secular chief who organised an occasion in Haridwar final month that referred to as for the genocide of Muslims, was arrested for objectionable remarks on girls, and never for hate speech on the Dharam Sansad or non secular meeting in Haridwar, police sources informed NDTV a day after his arrest.
The non secular chief has been issued a discover within the hate speech case additionally, the supply mentioned, including that he will probably be remanded in that case too.
“Yati Narsinghanand has been arrested for derogatory feedback towards girls, not the Haridwar hate speech case proper now. He has been issued a discover in that case to date. He will probably be remanded for the hate speech case too, the process is on. We’ll embody the hate speech case particulars additionally within the remand utility,” the police official mentioned.
As per sources, the present case towards Narsinghanand – regarding misogyny – is predicated on a criticism by filed earlier this month for his objectionable and derogatory remarks towards girls of different religions. The FIR invokes hate speech fees, along with fees of insulting girls.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t pertain to the hate speeches on the Dharam Sansad in Haridwar.
Yati Narsinghanand is among the many individuals named within the FIRs lodged over hate speeches on the Haridwar “Dharma Sansad” or non secular meeting final month.
Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi, who was Waseem Rizvi earlier than he transformed, is the one co-accused to be arrested within the case to date. His arrest got here practically a month after the occasion, solely after the Supreme Courtroom intervention.
Over the past two weeks, the saffron-robed Narsinghanand has gone from cackling with cops about how a police officer “will probably be on our facet” to cursing them – “all of you’ll die,” he mentioned on Thursday after the primary arrest.
Clips from the Haridwar occasion — held from December 17 to twenty — had been circulated on social media and drew sharp criticism from former army chiefs, retired judges, activists and even worldwide tennis legend Martina Navratilova.
Those that organised the occasion and gave the hate speeches preserve that they’ve accomplished no incorrect.
“I’m not ashamed of what I’ve mentioned. I’m not afraid of police. I stand by my assertion,” Prabodhanand Giri — photographed typically with BJP leaders together with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his Uttarakhand counterpart Pushkar Dhami — informed NDTV on December 23.
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