An activist from the city had been running from pillar to post for over a month to get a FIR registered against a Hindu Janjagruti Samiti activist over communally provocative statements accusing Muslim fruit sellers of ‘spit jihad’ and calling to boycott them. A FIR was finally registered at Sanjay Nagar Police Station on Friday, but only after intervention by a city court.
Zia R. Nomani, a founding member of Law and Policy Research Institute, filed a complaint against Chandru Mogar, coordinator of Hindu Janjagruthi Samithi, over his statements at Sanjay Nagar Police Station on April 6. However, the police refused to register an FIR citing jurisdictional issues. “I met everyone in the city police hierarchy requesting them to take up a case, but failed to get them to act. I was forced to approach the court with a private complaint seeking directions to the police,” he said. The Sanjay Nagar police have now registered a FIR against Chandru Mogar under Section 153A of Indian Penal Code for “promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race...”
Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, the organisation the accused is associated with has been under the police scanner in the State, as members associated with it have been accused and arrested for the murders of scholar M. M. Kalburgi and editor-activist Gauri Lankesh.
