Mathura: Eight individuals linked to Popular Front of India, including its college students’ wing chief Ok A Rauf Sherif and Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, had been charge-sheeted on Saturday by Uttar Pradesh police’s Special Task Force in a court docket right here for sedition, felony conspiracy, funding of terror actions and other offences.
Five of the accused — Campus Front of India’s (CFI) nationwide basic secretary Sherif, CFI nationwide treasurer Atikur Rahman, Delhi CFI basic secretary Masud Ahmed, Kappan and Mohammed Alam, who’s a member of the CFI and the PFI, had been current within the court docket of Additional District and Sessions Judge Anil Kumar Pandey.
Two other accused– Anshad Badruddin and Firoz Khan — attended the listening to by video conferencing.
“The STF has also filed a charge sheet against accused Danish,” district authorities counsel Shiv Ram Singh mentioned.
Defence counsel Madhuban Dutt mentioned that the 5000-page charge-sheet has been filed against the eight accused and they’re going to take into account transferring the excessive court docket after going by it.
The accused have been charge-sheeted underneath Indian Penal Code sections of 153 (A) (Promoting enmity between totally different teams on floor of faith, race, homeland, residence, language), 124(A) (sedition), 295 (A) (deliberate and malicious acts, meant to outrage non secular emotions…) and 120(B) (felony conspiracy), in keeping with the defence counsel.
They have additionally been charged with sections 17 and 18 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) associated to elevating funds for terror acts and numerous sections of the IT Act.
The court docket has mounted the following listening to for May 1.
Kappan together with Rahman, Masud Ahmed and Alam was arrested in October final 12 months whereas they had been heading to Hathras the place a 19-year previous Dalit girl had allegedly been gang-raped and murdered.
The FIR against them claimed that they had been going to Hathras with an intention “to breach the peace” as a part of a “conspiracy”.
The Enforcement Directorate had in February filed its first charge-sheet against the PFI members on cash laundering expenses, claiming they needed to “incite communal riots and spread terror” within the aftermath of the Hathras gang rape case.
The district counsel mentioned that Anshad Badruddin and Firoz Khan are lodged in Lucknow jail after being arrested for allegedly plotting to execute a sequence of blasts in Lucknow and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh.
The defence counsel claimed that the accused have been falsely implicated within the case.
He alleged that the accused who had been lodged in Mathura jail had been denied meals for 24 hours.
“They were not served any food after 5.00 PM on Friday till 4.30 PM of Saturday while they were in the court,” he claimed, including that Kappan has diabetes and Rahman is a coronary heart affected person.
As they had been being taken out of the court docket, a few of the accused shouted that the fees against them had been false.
The Uttar Pradesh authorities has been demanding a ban on PFI, alleging that it’s concerned in fuelling extremism and violence.
২৪X৭ নিউজ বেঙ্গল এ সবার আগে পড়ুন ব্রেকিং নিউজ। থাকছে দৈনিক টাটকা খবর, খবরের লাইভ আপডেট। সবচেয়ে ভরসাযোগ্য বাংলা এবং ইংলিশ খবর পড়ুন ২৪X৭ নিউজ বেঙ্গল এর ওয়েবসাইটে। নিয়মিত খবরে থাকতে লাইক করুন ফেসবুকে ও ফলো করুন টুইটারে।
‘রঙ’ ছাড়া সংবাদ খুঁজে পাওয়া কঠিন। কোন খবরটা ‘খাচ্ছে’? সেটাই কি শেষ কথা? নাকি আসল সত্যিটার নাম ‘সংবাদ’! ‘ব্রেকিং’ আর প্রাইম টাইমের পিছনে দৌড়তে গিয়ে দেওয়ালে পিঠ ঠেকেছে সত্যিকারের সাংবাদিকতার। অর্থ আর চোখ রাঙানিতে হাত বাঁধা সাংবাদিকদের। কিন্তু, গণতন্ত্রের চতুর্থ স্তম্ভে ‘রঙ’ লাগানোয় বিশ্বাসী নই আমরা। আর মৃত্যুশয্যা থেকে ফিরিয়ে আনতে পারেন আপনারাই। সোশ্যালের ওয়াল জুড়ে বিনামূল্যে পাওয়া খবরে ‘ফেক’ তকমা জুড়ে যাচ্ছে না তো? আসলে পৃথিবীতে কোনও কিছুই ‘ফ্রি’ নয়। তাই, আপনার দেওয়া একটি টাকাও অক্সিজেন জোগাতে পারে। স্বতন্ত্র সাংবাদিকতার স্বার্থে আপনার স্বল্প অনুদানও মূল্যবান। পাশে থাকুন।
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