The Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV) on Sunday registered a case against Nawazuddin Siddiqui's brother Ayazuddin Siddiqui at Budhana Police station in Muzaffarnagar on Sunday for “hurting religious sentiments”.
Hariram Yadav Deputy Superintendent of Police in Muzaffarnagar told The Hindu that police registered the case against Ayazuddin under 153A of the IPC (promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion, race, place of birth). The FIR was registered after an activist came to the police station with a complaint against him.
“Frankly, it looks like Ayazuddin had no intention of hurting anyone. He has not written anything offensive. All he did was to write something rejecting the offensive picture and post which was shared on the social networking website,” Yadav said.
“He wrote something to the effect that condemned the offensive post but while writing it he also copy pasted the offensive picture which is the reason behind the HYV’s anger and complaint. It was after the HYV’s complaint that police registered an FIR against him under section 153A,” he added.
The local HYV activist Bharat Thakur, the complainant in the case, demanded that police arrest Ayazuddin. “The police should send a signal to people like Ayazuddin that it is not easy to offend Hindus and it will fetch a deserving punishment of one dares to go down that road. That is why we have filed a case against him. If the culprit is not arrested soon then we will launch a protest campaign in Budhana,” Mr. Thakur told the media.
