Apr 20, 2025 01:04 PM IST
In December 2021, throughout a three-day Dharam Sansad organised at Niketan Ashram at Khadkhadi in Haridwar, some seers delivered alleged hate speeches in opposition to the Muslim group
Dehradun: A Haridwar court docket has acquitted Jitendra Tyagi alias Wasim Rizvi within the 2021 Dharam Sansad hate speech case on grounds of “benefit of doubt”.
Jitendra Tyagi alias Wasim Rizvi. (File Picture)
The court docket of chief judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM) Avinash Kumar Srivastava acquitted Tyagi on April 16.
In December 2021, throughout a three-day Dharam Sansad organised at Niketan Ashram at Khadkhadi in Haridwar, some seers delivered alleged hate speeches in opposition to the Muslim group and the movies of them went viral on social media.
The speeches drew widespread criticism together with the Haridwar-based apex physique of akhadas- Akhil Bhartiya Akhada Parishad saying “Sanatan Dharma never endorses violence against other religions and always advocates love and peace.”
A case was registered in opposition to Tyagi underneath sections 153-A (selling enmity between completely different teams on the grounds of faith, race, fatherland, residence, language, and so on) and 298 (Injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the faith of any class) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Kotwali police station in Haridwar on January 1, 2022.
Tyagi was arrested on January 13, 2022, from Narsain space in Haridwar on Uttar Pradesh-Uttarakhand border in reference to the FIR lodged in opposition to him. He was launched on bail on Might 19, 2022.
Wasim Rizvi, a former chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board, transformed to Hinduism on December 6, 2021.