Raipur: Three FIRs have been registered in opposition to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in components of Chhattisgarh for allegedly hurting the non secular sentiments of the Sikh group by his remarks made throughout the current US go to, police stated on Friday.
Whereas two circumstances – one on the Civil Strains police station in capital Raipur and one other on the Bilaspur Civil Strains police station in Bilaspur district – had been registered on Thursday, an FIR was filed on the Kotwali police station in Durg district on Friday, they stated.
The circumstances had been registered based mostly on the complaints lodged by BJP leaders. Related complaints have been submitted at police stations in different districts of the state too by ruling occasion leaders.
In all these circumstances, Gandhi was booked below sections 299 (deliberate and malicious acts which can be supposed to insult non secular beliefs or outrage non secular emotions of any class) and 302 (deliberately hurting somebody’s non secular emotions by phrases, sounds, gestures, or objects) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, they stated.
State BJP spokesperson Amarjeet Singh Chhabra, in his grievance lodged in Raipur, said that Gandhi made the comment whether or not Sikhs can be allowed to put on a turban or a ‘kada’ and go to Gurdwara in India.
Gandhi’s assertion has damage the non secular sentiments of the Sikh group in India, Chhabra stated within the grievance.
“In the complete world and even in India, the Sikh group will not be prohibited from carrying a turban, a kada and visiting Gurdwaras. Even the Prime Minister visits Gurdwara carrying a turban. Gandhi’s assertion is meant to harm the emotions of the peace-loving Sikh group, which can create discrimination and animosity with different religions of the society,” he claimed.
The case in Durg Kotwali police station was lodged by BJP’s Durg district unit chief Jitendra Verma.
BJP leaders have lodged complaints on the identical concern in different police stations of Durg, Surguja and another districts.
Gandhi had made the remark whereas addressing a gathering of a number of hundred Indian People in Herndon, a Virginia suburb of Washington DC, on September 9.
