The Delhi Police has registered an FIR towards human rights activist Nadeem Khan on expenses of selling enmity and felony conspiracy after a video was uploaded on social media, which police mentioned was inflicting unrest amongst native folks.
Khan has been the Nationwide Secretary of the Affiliation for the Safety of Civil Rights (APCR) since 2020. DCP (Southeast) Ravi Kumar Singh confirmed {that a} case was registered on Saturday.
As per the contents of the FIR, a sub-inspector (SI) was on patrol responsibility when he was knowledgeable by “secret sources” {that a} video had been uploaded on social media that was inflicting nice anger amongst native folks and will result in violence.
The SI, who filed the criticism within the case, discovered that the video had gone viral. Based on the FIR, it was discovered that the video was posted on YouTube on November 21 by a channel named ‘Akram official 50’ beneath the title ‘Information of Hindustan in Modi Sarkar’.
The two.50-minute-long video, the FIR mentioned, confirmed an individual who had arrange a stall at an exhibition and standing in entrance of a number of show boards. He was gesturing in the direction of a banner and speaking about ‘Nadeem, Akhlaq, Rohit Vemula, Pehlu Khan’, and the 2020 CAA/NRC protests in Shaheen Bagh and the Delhi riots, portraying a selected neighborhood as victims and inciting folks, the FIR said.
“The video additionally reveals images of some politicians and media personalities… on a number of show boards, whom the individual accuses of spreading hatred. After this, the individual mentions incidents from totally different elements of the nation, portraying a selected neighborhood as victims and making an attempt to disrupt communal concord within the nation,” the FIR said.
After checking social media platforms, it was discovered that the video was uploaded by one other individual on X. On analysing this video, police mentioned it was discovered that the show stall was arrange by APCR.
Upon inquiring about APCR, police mentioned its registered workplace is in Abul Fazal Enclave 1, Jamia Nagar, and the individual talking within the video is Khan. “Khan has spoken within the video (regardless of realizing) this can be a delicate situation and that organising an exhibition on a public platform, making a museum… placing up pictures of well-known public personalities, making allegations, and portraying a selected neighborhood as oppressed can incite folks and promote separatist actions,” the FIR said.
A case beneath sections 196, 353(2) and 61 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been registered and investigation is underway, mentioned police.
In a press release, the Individuals’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) mentioned it was shocked at how the Delhi Police is conducting a focused witch-hunt of Khan on the instigation of some social media accounts on Twitter.
“On Saturday, round 5 pm, 4 personnel, together with the SHO of Shaheen Bagh Police Station in Delhi, got here to the non-public residence in Bengaluru the place Khan was staying and tried to detain him with none warrant or discover. From 5 pm until 9 pm, they sat within the corridor of the primary flooring of the home and coerced Nadeem to come back to Delhi ‘voluntarily’ with them beneath ‘casual custody’,” PUCL alleged in a press release.
The Delhi Police didn’t reply to those allegations.
