India
oi-Vicky Nanjappa
Mumbai, Mar 07: Activist Sharjeel Usmani has approached the Bombay High Court seeking to quash an FIR registered against him by the Pune police for allegedly promoting enmity among different groups in his speech made at the Elgar Parishad event held in January this year.
In the petition filed earlier this week, Usmani termed the FIR as “frivolous and baseless”, and said it has been registered “on the basis of certain select statements taken out of context”.
The FIR was registered on February 2, 2021 against Usmani (23), an alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), by the Swargate police station in Pune under section 153 (A) of the Indian Penal Code (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc).
Usmani has sought for the FIR to be quashed and a direction to the police to not take any coercive action against…