T’gana CM’s daughter booked for sedition
12 Aug 2014 5:48 AM IST
On the direction of a city court, a first information report (FIR) was registered against Kavitha, a Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Lok Sabha member from Nizamabad, at the Madannapet police station.
Kavitha has been booked under charges of sedition, promoting enmity between different groups and doing acts prejudicial maintenance of harmony, for statements conducing to public mischief, under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.
Police took the action nearly a week after a city court directed it to register a case against the Lok Sabha member.
Police on Monday submitted their report to the court.
The additional chief metropolitan magistrate had passed the orders on 5 August on a private petition filed by BJP activist and advocate K Karunasagar. The complainant claimed that Kavitha, in an interview to a newspaper, stated that both Jammu and Kashmir, and Hyderabad, were not part of India earlier and forcefully annexed.
The BJP leader alleged the TRS parliamentarian’s remarks were malicious and will boost spirit of anti-nationals.
Kavitha has been booked under charges of sedition, promoting enmity between different groups and doing acts prejudicial maintenance of harmony, for statements conducing to public mischief, under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.
Police took the action nearly a week after a city court directed it to register a case against the Lok Sabha member.
Police on Monday submitted their report to the court.
The additional chief metropolitan magistrate had passed the orders on 5 August on a private petition filed by BJP activist and advocate K Karunasagar. The complainant claimed that Kavitha, in an interview to a newspaper, stated that both Jammu and Kashmir, and Hyderabad, were not part of India earlier and forcefully annexed.
The BJP leader alleged the TRS parliamentarian’s remarks were malicious and will boost spirit of anti-nationals.
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