The Bengaluru City Police on Wednesday filed a B report in a case of sedition booked against international human rights non-government organisation Amnesty International, India, for want of evidence to make the charge.
The city police had booked unnamed representatives of Amnesty International, India for sedition based on a complaint by members of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) following an event in the city on August 15, 2016, called ‘Broken Families’ where Kashmiri families were to narrate their stories of strife in the valley.
The event turned controversial after ABVP activists gate crashed and objected to the event. In the complaint they filed later, they alleged that “Azadi” slogans were raised at the event, which amounted to sedition.
However, senior police officials said that the probe into the case, led by an assistant commissioner, found no evidence to make the charge of sedition against the representatives of the organisation. “We also sent the video of the event for forensic examination. The examination report has no evidence of any such slogans raised by the organisers or anything that amounts to sedition. So we have filed a B report in the case,” said a senior police official.
