PTI | | Posted by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao
A prison defamation criticism was filed in opposition to Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav in a court docket right here on Wednesday over his alleged comment suggesting “solely Gujaratis could be thugs within the present state of affairs”.
The criticism was filed in opposition to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief by social employee and businessman Haresh Mehta, 63, beneath Indian Penal Code sections 499 and 500 (coping with prison defamation) within the court docket of extra metropolitan Justice of the Peace DJ Parmar.
“We submitted the criticism together with proof in type of a pen drive containing the assertion. The court docket has accepted the criticism and can confirm it on Might 1,” Mehta’s lawyer P R Patel mentioned.
The criticism stems from 33-year-old Yadav’s assertion made earlier than the media in Patna on March 21. “Solely Gujaratis could be thugs within the current state of affairs, and their fraud (crime) will probably be forgiven. Who will probably be accountable in the event that they run away with the cash belonging to LIC or banks?” the Bihar Deputy CM had allegedly mentioned.
The complainant mentioned the assertion, calling the whole Gujarati neighborhood as “thug”, was made earlier than the media. It defames and humiliates all Gujaratis in public. A “thug” is a rogue, sly and a prison individual, and such a comparability with the whole neighborhood will trigger non-Gujarati folks to take a look at Gujaratis with suspicion, Mehta mentioned whereas in search of issuance of summons in opposition to Yadav and most punishment for him beneath the legislation.
The complainant mentioned he’s additionally a Gujarati, and when he got here throughout the information on a digital platform, he realised such a defamatory assertion will make a non-Gujarati look down upon a resident of the state as a ‘thug’. It could be famous {that a} court docket in Gujarat’s Surat metropolis in March convicted and sentenced Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to 2 years in jail over his “Modi surname” comment. After the conviction, the previous Congress president misplaced his Lok Sabha membership.
Individually, a court docket in Ahmedabad has issued summonses to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Social gathering MP Sanjay Singh in a prison defamation case filed by the Gujarat College over their remarks on the institute.