Open letter to Modi over mob lynching: Sedition case filed against celebrities including Ramchandra Guha, Aparna Sen
Muzaffarpur: A First Information Report (FIR) was lodged against the celebrities including Ramchandra Guha, Aparna Sen who had voiced their concerns over mob lynching in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, media reports said.
The sedition case was lodged two months after an order was passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate Surya Kant Tiwari couple of months ago in reply to a petition filed by local advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha.
"The CJM had passed the order on August 20, accepting my petition upon the receipt of which an FIR was lodged today (Thursday) at the Sadar police station," Ojha has been quoted as saying by NDTV.
The police said the FIR was filed under sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) which include sedition, public nuisance, hurting religious feelings and insulting with an intent to lead to beach of peace, report said.
Forty nine Intellectuals including filmmakers Adoor Gopalakrishan, Shyam Benegal, Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose, Kaushik Sen, actor Soumitra Chatterjee, historian Ram Chandra Guha in late July wrote a letter to Modi saying the slogan in the name of God has become a "war-cry".
Citing the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports, which states no less than 840 incidents of atrocities took place only in 2016, the intellectuals said, "The lynching of Muslims, Dalits and minorities must be stopped immediately."
The letter had also highlighted the report claiming 254 religious identity-based hate crimes were reported between Jan 1, 2009 and Oct 29, 2018.
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