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Kota court instructs police to file FIR against Randhawa for remarks on PM | Jaipur News
KOTA: A court in Kota on Monday ordered the city police to register a case against state Congress in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa for his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a party workers’ meeting in Jaipur in March and to submit a report on it after investigation.
The order came in response to BJP state general secretary and Ramganjmandi MLA Madan Dilawar’s complaint case (istgasa) against Randhawa. Dilawar had moved the additional chief judicial magistrate’s (ACJM) court – 6 on May 3, alleging that officials at Mahaveer Nagar police station refused to lodge an FIR on his complaint on March 18.
Dilawar’s advocate Manoj Puri said the court had sought a report on the matter from the city SP on May 10 and that the SP had submitted a report on Monday. The SP’s report stated the matter did not fall in the jurisdiction of Kota city police as Randhawa had made the alleged remarks in Jaipur, said Puri.
“Taking note of our submission that Randhawa’s remarks, despite being made in Jaipur, were likely to affect Kota and the whole country and may also cause violence anywhere in the country, the court observed that the case was in criminal matter and therefore a case could be lodged in any place where the crime could have an impact. The court ordered the city police to lodge an FIR against Randhawa and submit an investigation report,” said Puri.
SHO Paramjeet Singh of Mahaveer Nagar police station said a copy of the court’s order was yet to be received.
Randhawa had targeted PM Narendra Modi and BJP over their alleged ties with industry tycoons Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani in his address to a party workers’ meeting in Jaipur on March 13 and said, “If Adani and Ambani have to be removed, Modi should be finished first…. If Modi is finished, the nation would be saved. Otherwise, the nation would be ruined.”
Dilawar had accused Randhawa of using hate speech directed at PM Modi. Asserting that Randhawa’s remarks amounted to an attempt to provoke violence and enmity among the people to damage the nation’s integrity and unity.
The order came in response to BJP state general secretary and Ramganjmandi MLA Madan Dilawar’s complaint case (istgasa) against Randhawa. Dilawar had moved the additional chief judicial magistrate’s (ACJM) court – 6 on May 3, alleging that officials at Mahaveer Nagar police station refused to lodge an FIR on his complaint on March 18.
Dilawar’s advocate Manoj Puri said the court had sought a report on the matter from the city SP on May 10 and that the SP had submitted a report on Monday. The SP’s report stated the matter did not fall in the jurisdiction of Kota city police as Randhawa had made the alleged remarks in Jaipur, said Puri.
“Taking note of our submission that Randhawa’s remarks, despite being made in Jaipur, were likely to affect Kota and the whole country and may also cause violence anywhere in the country, the court observed that the case was in criminal matter and therefore a case could be lodged in any place where the crime could have an impact. The court ordered the city police to lodge an FIR against Randhawa and submit an investigation report,” said Puri.
SHO Paramjeet Singh of Mahaveer Nagar police station said a copy of the court’s order was yet to be received.
Randhawa had targeted PM Narendra Modi and BJP over their alleged ties with industry tycoons Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani in his address to a party workers’ meeting in Jaipur on March 13 and said, “If Adani and Ambani have to be removed, Modi should be finished first…. If Modi is finished, the nation would be saved. Otherwise, the nation would be ruined.”
Dilawar had accused Randhawa of using hate speech directed at PM Modi. Asserting that Randhawa’s remarks amounted to an attempt to provoke violence and enmity among the people to damage the nation’s integrity and unity.
