The police in Karnataka have registered an FIR towards RSS chief Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat over a speech for allegedly selling enmity between completely different communities and insulting the modesty of ladies. The speech was delivered throughout a programme held close to Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district on October 20, based mostly on which the FIR was registered on October 25.
The complainant within the case, Eshwari Padmunja, accuses Bhat of constructing provocative remarks focusing on ladies and minority communities. In her criticism, she highlighted components of his speech the place Bhat mentioned that Hindu ladies had been ridiculed for having greater than two youngsters. He contended that when a Hindu lady had three youngsters, somebody from the neighborhood ridiculed her for “giving beginning like canine”. Nevertheless, a Muslim lady having seven youngsters will not be ridiculed in the identical method, he mentioned.
Claiming that a number of Hindu ladies didn’t need youngsters, Bhat recommended that Hindu ladies ought to have a minimum of three youngsters. “If we don’t have youngsters, who will go to the temples?” he mentioned in his speech.
In one other a part of his deal with, Bhat referred to a survey that mentioned {that a} Muslim lady, aged 46-47, had 13 youngsters whereas being pregnant with one other child.
The Puttur rural police booked Bhat and the occasion’s organisers underneath sections 79, 196, 299, 302, and three(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which take care of insulting the modesty of ladies, selling enmity between completely different religions, and uttering phrases with deliberate intent to wound non secular emotions of any individual.
The police have additionally summoned him for an inquiry on October 30.
Bhat isn’t any stranger to controversy. He was booked a number of occasions prior to now for his feedback. In June, Bhat secured interim reduction restraining the police from taking “coercive motion” towards him following an FIR registered over alleged hate speech.