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B'luru cops book Amnesty for sedition

Last Updated 15 August 2016, 20:20 IST

The city police on Monday booked Amnesty International India on sedition charges for organising an event that highlighted rights’ violations in Jammu and Kashmir.

An FIR was registered based on a complaint by Jayaprakash of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in Bengaluru.

Amnesty said that it has “not yet received” a copy of the FIR. “Merely organising an event to defend constitutional values is now being branded anti-India and criminalised,” said Aakar Patel, executive director of Amnesty.

According to the complaint, anti-national and pro-Pakistan slogans were raised during the ‘Broken Families’ event, which was an interactive session with the families of Kashmiri youth killed in fake encounters.

“The police registered an FIR against Amnesty representatives and unnamed others for organising the event on August 13 at the United Theological College premises. The FIR doesn’t include the college. The police have begun the probe,” Additional Commissioner of Police (West) K S R Charan Reddy told DH.

Besides being charged under IPC 124 A (sedition), they have been booked under Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups) and 159 (persons disturbing public peace by fighting in a public place).

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(Published 15 August 2016, 20:20 IST)

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