No action against Anurag Thakur and Pravesh Verma

- Court shock to communist leader Vrinda Karat

-Thakur-Verma was accused of giving hate speech

New Delhi Dated 27th August 2020 Thursday

A Delhi court has rejected a petition seeking legal action against BJP MPs Anurag Thakur and Pravesh Verma for creating hate speeches during protests against the new citizenship law in Shaheen Bagh in January-February this year.

The petition filed by Communist Party leader Vrinda Karat was rejected by the court. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja told Vrinda that registration of an FIR against the two MPs would require the permission of the Central Government under Section 196 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Have you taken permission from the central government? That was the question the court asked. In response, Vrinda Karat's counsel did not seek any such permission and the court dismissed her application.

This provision was made earlier when the Congress and its allies (UPA) ruled at the Center so that no person or organization could file a criminal case against a UPA MP. At present, this provision is against the UPA and its allies.

Earlier, Vrinda Karat had written a letter to the New Delhi Police Commissioner as well as the station house officer of the concerned police station to file a case against the two MPs. He knocked on the court door without getting any reply. He alleged that on January 27 this year, Anurag Thakur threatened the protesters at Shaheen Bagh. Thakur called the protesters traitors.

Earlier, the Election Commission had also lodged a complaint against the two MPs, disqualifying them as star campaigners for the Delhi elections and banning them from addressing any rally or campaigning in any other way.