HYDERABAD: Telangana police on Thursday registered a criminal case against AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh following a complaint on his tweets that Telangana police hosted a fake ISIS website to radicalize Muslim youth.
The Jubilee Hills police of Hyderabad, which received a complaint from B. Dinesh Chowdhary and others on Monday, issued the First Information Report (FIR) against the Congress leader who was also in-charge of party’s Telangana wing. They invoked sections 505 (1) (a) and (b) (making statement to cause any officer to mutiny or otherwise disregard or fail in his duty and cause fear or alarm among public) and 505 (2) ( making statement causing feelings of enmity, hatred) of Indian Penal Code against him.
Mr. Singh’s tweets stirred up controversy as he claimed that Telangana police hosted the fake website luring Muslim youth towards ISIS. He criticized that the police action was not justified. Even as ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi party leaders of Telangana condemned his remarks and demanded an unconditional apology from his “biased tweets”, the Congress leader stuck to his statement saying that he had evidence to substantiate his remarks and was ready to go to any extent on the matter.
The Telangana police received two complaints, one in Jubilee Hills of Hyderabad and another in One Town police station of Karimnagar commissionerate, seeking action over his comments. The police higher-ups, however, didn’t register any case immediately.
They sought legal opinion on the complaints and issued the FIR on Thursday.
