LUCKNOW An assistant professor at Lucknow College was on Monday booked on costs of sedition and inflicting disharmony for her controversial social media submit associated to the Pahalgam terrorist assault, calling sure actions primarily based on “religion terrorism”.
An FIR has been registered on costs of sedition, selling enmity between totally different communities, and different provisions associated to creating public disturbance and hurting non secular sentiments, mentioned the assistant commissioner of police. (Pic for illustration)
The FIR was lodged on the Hasanganj police station in opposition to Madri Kakoti, assistant professor within the linguistics division, following a grievance by a pupil chief affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), mentioned officers.
A day after the Pahalgam assault, Kakoti had posted on X: “If killing people after asking their religion is terrorism, then, lynching, laying them off, not providing home and bulldozing their houses in the name of religion is also terrorism. Identify the real terrorist.”
LU registrar Vidyanand Tripathi issued a show-cause discover to the assistant professor after a bunch of scholars staged a protest on the campus, alleging that the instructor’s remarks had been reposted by a Pakistani media deal with tarnishing India’s and LU’s fame and gave a memorandum to the vice-chancellor in search of motion in opposition to her. The discover requested Kakoti to submit her rationalization inside 5 working days.
Assistant commissioner of police (Mahanagar) Neha Tripathi mentioned an FIR had been registered on costs of sedition, selling enmity between totally different communities, and different provisions associated to creating public disturbance and hurting non secular sentiments.
Kakoti was booked below Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 197 (1) (propagating non secular hatred utilizing the proper to free speech and expression), 196 (1)(a) (selling enmity between totally different teams), 353 (2) (making and publishing assertion, false data, hearsay, or report, via digital means), 352 (intentional insult to impress a breach of peace), 302 (uttering phrases with deliberate intent to wound non secular emotions of any individual),152 (endangering sovereignty, unity and integrity of India) and Part 69 (a) of the IT modification Act, 2008.
“We are conducting a probe, will verify the account, and then issue a notice against the named professor,” mentioned Tripathi.
“The investigation is on and legal action will be taken, if the complaint is found true,” mentioned Amar Nath Verma, SHO, Hasanganj police station.
The grievance was lodged by Jatin Shukla, related to the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). “The statement made by Kakoti is a threat to peace and meant to ignite riots in the country. The post has been shared by a Pakistan media channel. She has allegedly been using words like ‘saffron terrorism’, among others, even in the past and strict legal action should be taken against her,” learn the FIR. Efforts to get in contact with Kakoti went in useless as her telephone stay switched off.