1 June 2022
A day after Maharashtra police booked a BJP spokesperson for making allegedly objectionable remarks about Prophet Muhammad S.A.W on television, Hyderabad City Police also registered a case against her following a complaint by MP Asaduddin Owaisi.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief tweeted a copy of the FIR against BJP’s Nupur Sharma. The FIR accuses Sharma of using “abusive, false and hurtful” words against the Prophet Muhammad and the Islam religion.
She is charged under section 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of the IPC.
Owaisi noted that an FIR was registered against former BJP leader Qavi Abbasi of the Inquilab Party for allegedly threatening Sharma in the light of her comments.
Sharma has been booked “for hurting religious sentiments and other offences based on a complaint,” Senior Inspector Ashok Kadlag of Mumbra police station said.
In the aftermath of the remarks airing on TV, Sharma had appeared to place “responsibility” on Mohammed Zubair of the fact-checking website AltNews, who had tweeted the clip.
AltNews has said that the clip was unedited and that Sharma’s claim is false, offering a longer video where she can purportedly be heard making the same comments.
