An FIR has been filed in Lucknow against social networking site Facebook and a journalist from Jalandhar for allegedly asking people to burn the Bhagwad Gita.
A social activist from Lucknow has lodged an FIR against social networking site Facebook and one of its users for allegedly posting comments and spreading hatred against Hindu’s holy scripture Bhagavad Gita.
Nutan Thakur has filed an FIR against Jalandhar resident CI Chumbar and the networking site under section 153 (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of communities and other grounds), 153 A (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration), 153 B (public nuisance), 290 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 504 (criminal intimidation) 506 and 66 A IT Act (using Information Technology for these purposes).
Acccording to report, Circle officer Alok Singh said, “The FIR has been registered at Gomti Nagar Police Station on a complaint lodged by Nutan Thakur under various sections of the IPC on Saturday.”
In her FIR, Nutan alleged that the user calls himself the Editor-in-Chief of a Punjabi daily newspaper and he had asked people to burn the Bhagwad Gita on Facebook.
She added in FIR,The journalist claimed the scripture made derogatory references to women. In her complaint, Nutan alleged that the comments on Facebook were enough to provoke anger and trigger communal riots.
She claimed the words and abuses were of such nature that they are wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot.
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