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Owaisi gets jail for 14 days, pulled up by
judge
Wednesday January 09, 2013 08:59:38 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: MIM leader
Akbaruddin Owaisi was Wednesday sent to jail for 14 days for
delivering a hate speech and accused of sedition and waging war
against the nation even the the Andhra Pradesh High Court
reprimanded the legislator.
After questioning Owaisi through the night, police presented him
early Wednesday before a magistrate in Nirmal town in Adilabad
district, around 200 km from here.
The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader was then shifted to the
district jail in Adilabad town, 90 km from Nirmal.
A court in Nirmal Wednesday dismissed Owaisi's plea to shift him
to the Chanchalguda Jail in Hyderabad on health grounds.
The court adjourned till Thursday a police petition seeking his
seven-day custody for further questioning.
In Hyderabad, the high court admitted the MIM leader's petition,
seeking orders to quash cases booked against him in various police
stations in the state.
Justice Narasimha Reddy adjourned the hearing by four weeks.
But he pulled up the legislator, finding fault with his
provocative remarks.
Judge Reddy said that a person holding a responsible position
should not make such comments. "Is this what you are giving back
to the people of the country for electing you as their
representative?" he asked.
He also pointed out that secularism was an integral part of Indian
democracy and reminded Owaisi that his late father, Sultan
Salahuddin Owaisi, had been a MP -- and so was his brother
Asaduddin now.
In another development, a division bench of the high court
dismissed a petition filed by a citizen seeking directions to
Youtube to remove Akbar Owaisi's speeches from the video-sharing
website.
The legislator was arrested in Hyderabad Tuesday evening after he
underwent medical tests through the day.
He was booked in Nirmal Jan 3 in connection with a venomous speech
by him in Adilabad Dec 22 against the Hindu community.
He is facing serious charges, ranging from sedition to waging war
against the government.
Police had initially booked the legislator for promoting enmity
between different groups and doing acts prejudicial to harmony as
well as waging or attempting to wage war against the state.
The latter charge carries death sentence or life imprisonment.
Owaisi now faces five other charges: criminal conspiracy,
sedition, threatening people to give false evidence, doing public
mischief and disobeying official orders.
He faces similar charges in Nizamabad town.
Police in Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy and other districts also booked
cases against him on complaints by activists of the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) and its frontal organisations.
In another development, a court in Warangal district Wednesday
directed police to book the MIM leader on a petition by a lawyer.
Meanwhile, the situation in the old city of Hyderabad, an MIM
stronghold, remained tense but peaceful.
For the second day, most shops and businesses around the historic
Charminar and other Muslim-majority areas remained closed.
MIM has not called for a shutdown in Hyderabad and its chief
Asaduddin Owaisi appealed to people to maintain peace.
However, shopkeepers in the main markets in the Old City
voluntarily observed a shutdown.
Police and paramilitary forces were deployed around Charminar and
interior areas which saw communal clashes in November.
Asaduddin Owaisi described the arrest of his younger brother as a
conspiracy by the Congress and the BJP.
He said he had full faith in the judiciary and hoped justice would
be done in Akbar Owaisi's case.
A shutdown was observed in parts of Adilabad and Nizamabad
districts on a call given by the MIM to protest the arrest.
MIM workers took our rallies in some places. Protestors damaged
media vehicles near a court in Nirmal.
Holding pictures of Akbar Owaisi and placards, the MIM activists
also held a massive protest in Zaheerabad town in Medak district.
They demanded his immediate release.
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