By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
New Delhi: A Jaipur court in Rajasthan on September 3 ordered the local police to register an FIR against Syed Ahmad Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, over his alleged inflammatory statement following the arrest of Abu Bashir, a maulvi, in connection with the Ahmedabad bombings.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Omi Purohit ordered the Kotwali police to register a case of waging war against the country against the Imam, conduct an investigation into the case and submit a report with the court, says a report in Rashtriya Sahara.
The court passed the order on a petition filed by Bharat Sharma of Akhil Bharathiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a youth wing of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Sharma contended in his petition that Imam Bukhari had threatened to organize a nation-wide movement if Abu Bashir, an accused in the Ahmedabad serial blasts who was arrested from his home in Azamgarh, was not released immediately. The Imam had also warned to wage a movement bigger than that of 1947. Sharma’s counsel argued that the statement was antinational and aimed at creating hatred between communities.
It is interesting to recall that soon after the exposure of involvement of Hindutva activists in Thane theatre blast, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had gave a call to carry severe blasts in Muslim areas. There is no report of any case registered against Thackeray.