The Tamil Nadu police have booked Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) chief and Tamil nationalist chief S Seeman for hate speech in opposition to migrant employees from north India and Hindi audio system, officers conscious of the matter stated on Sunday.
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The motion got here after Seeman in a public assembly carried out forward of the Erode east bypoll on February 13 stated that north Indians and Hindi audio system must be handled an iron fist within the state.
On March 11, election strategist Prashant Kishor had demanded motion in opposition to Seeman by tweeting a 45-second video clip of his speech. On Saturday, police stated that they discovered he had made objectionable feedback in opposition to Hindi audio system and booked Seeman.
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Earlier, a case was filed in opposition to Seeman on February 22 for his remarks on the Dalit group throughout the identical speech below the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989, a police officer stated. Police have now added extra sections in opposition to him over his feedback in opposition to Hindi audio system similar to 153 (b) (c) and 506 (1) regarding felony intimidation.
A senior authorities official informed HT that Seeman ought to have been booked even earlier as rumours and faux movies claiming migrant labourers have been attacked in Tamil Nadu alarmed folks within the state and the remainder of the nation over the previous two weeks.
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11 FIRs had been registered by the Tamil Nadu police in opposition to these allegedly spreading pretend information, together with Tamil Nadu BJP president Ok Annamalai, the Twitter deal with of the BJP’s Bihar unit @BJP4Bihar, BJP spokesperson Prashant Umrao, Dainik Bhaskar editor Mohammed Tanveer, OpIndia net portal’s CEO Rahul Roushan and its editor Nupur Sharma.
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