<p>The Delhi police questioned Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Monday for allegedly writing an inflammatory article in a Mumbai-based newspaper last year. <br /><br /></p>.<p>He was accused of spreading enmity among different communities. He came with his lawyers at the Delhi police's crime branch office at Chanakyapuri in central Delhi at 11 am, said a senior police officer. He was questioned for two hours.<br /><br />“He was questioned in a case registered in October last year, regarding the article he wrote in a newspaper. We had questioned two more persons related to the case,” said deputy commissioner of police (crime) Ashok Chand.<br /><br />“I was asked about the meaning of certain words. I told them that my original article was about 4,000 words and the published one was about 1,100 words. I pointed out the sentences that were deleted,” said the Harvard-educated Swamy.<br /><br />He said he wrote the article and emailed it to the newspaper when he was in the US.<br />On whether his 4,000-word-long article lost its significance after editing, he said, “The editor of the paper have the right to edit.”<br /><br />Swamy alleged that the case was registered at the behest of home minister P Chidambaram. “The registration of the case was politically motivated and it was done to ensure that I am jailed,” he alleged.<br /><br />The crime branch registered an FIR in October, three months after the publication of the controversial article, which was considered offensive to Muslims.<br /><br />He was charged under Section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence and language) of the Indian Penal Code.<br /><br />The case was filed after a complaint by senior lawyer R K Anand in August. Even the National Commission for Minorities had decided to file a case against him for writing the article.<br /><br />He was granted anticipatory bail till January 30 by the Delhi High Court on January 13.<br /></p>
<p>The Delhi police questioned Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Monday for allegedly writing an inflammatory article in a Mumbai-based newspaper last year. <br /><br /></p>.<p>He was accused of spreading enmity among different communities. He came with his lawyers at the Delhi police's crime branch office at Chanakyapuri in central Delhi at 11 am, said a senior police officer. He was questioned for two hours.<br /><br />“He was questioned in a case registered in October last year, regarding the article he wrote in a newspaper. We had questioned two more persons related to the case,” said deputy commissioner of police (crime) Ashok Chand.<br /><br />“I was asked about the meaning of certain words. I told them that my original article was about 4,000 words and the published one was about 1,100 words. I pointed out the sentences that were deleted,” said the Harvard-educated Swamy.<br /><br />He said he wrote the article and emailed it to the newspaper when he was in the US.<br />On whether his 4,000-word-long article lost its significance after editing, he said, “The editor of the paper have the right to edit.”<br /><br />Swamy alleged that the case was registered at the behest of home minister P Chidambaram. “The registration of the case was politically motivated and it was done to ensure that I am jailed,” he alleged.<br /><br />The crime branch registered an FIR in October, three months after the publication of the controversial article, which was considered offensive to Muslims.<br /><br />He was charged under Section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence and language) of the Indian Penal Code.<br /><br />The case was filed after a complaint by senior lawyer R K Anand in August. Even the National Commission for Minorities had decided to file a case against him for writing the article.<br /><br />He was granted anticipatory bail till January 30 by the Delhi High Court on January 13.<br /></p>
