Hate speech row: FIR filed against Yati Narsinghanand for remarks on Prophet Muhammad following AIMIM’s complaint

Hyderabad: Yati Narsinghanand, head priest of a temple from Ghaziabad, has been charged with hate speech for allegedly making offensive comments about Prophet Muhammad. His remarks have resulted in protests within the town of Uttar Pradesh and other nearby states. Close aides of Yati Narsinghanand have claimed that he has been detained in Ghaziabad, but the police have yet to confirm this claim. Read the ultimate story lower than…

Hate speech row: FIR filed against Yati Narsinghanand for remarks on Prophet Muhammad following AIMIM’s complaint

Earlier on Saturday, the Hyderabad Police registered an FIR against Yati Narsinghanand, following a complaint lodged by the Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM over his alleged derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad. The FIR became booked by the Cyber Crime police station of the town police lower than relevant provisions of the IT Act and BNS. Sharing a post on X,(previously Twitter), Asaduddin Owaisi posted a duplicate of the complaint and FIR.

Earlier within the day, Owaisi, accompanied by his birthday celebration leaders, lodged a complaint here in quest of the arrest of Yati Narsinghanand. While protests were held within the old city area here against the Hindutva leader, Owaisi in general is often called on police commissioner C V Anand and later told reporters that AIMIM’s plaint had been forwarded to cyber cell for action, PTI reported.

The town police chief has also apprised him that social media platforms should be informed, consistent with the procedure, on the removal of objectionable remarks. Owaisi stated that Yati Narsinghanand became earlier jailed in connection with a hate speech and one of his bail conditions became that he won't make similar comments. Hence, AIMIM demands that Yati Narsinghanand’s bail be cancelled.

Per a news agency PTI report, AIMIM mentioned an extremely extensive collection of the comments allegedly made by Yati Narsinghanand in its police complaint and said such remarks, prima facie, amounts to hate speech. Owaisi, also the Hyderabad MP, cited a Supreme Court judgment and said that suo motu action must be taken whenever somebody makes a hate speech.

Furthermore, the complaint sought action lower than the provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and alleged that it has change into common practice for people like Narsinghanand to make false and frivolous statements targeting Islam. It said a TV journalist, Telangana BJP MLA Raja Singh and BJP’s then spokesperson Nupur Sharma had made similar comments against Prophet Muhammad. The MP appealed to the people to remain calm. On the same issue, some activists have also most well-liked police complaints.

Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind demands Yati Narsinghanand’s arrest, says filing FIR ‘not enough’

Prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind on Saturday demanded the arrest of Yati Narsinghanand, head priest of Dasna Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, and said that filing an FIR against him is “not enough”. Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind president Maulana Arshad Madani, in an announcement, alleged that Narsinghanand has made “intolerable blasphemous” remarks against the Prophet Muhammad.

(With PTI Inputs)