Sharjeel Usmani will be arrested – Anil Deshmukh

By Frontier India News Network , 2021-02-03 0 Comments

The Maharashtra Police has filed a case against Ex Aligarh Muslim University student Sharjeel Usmani (24) in Pune on Tuesday for his speech at the recent Elgar Parishad conclave held on January 30th. A case under section 153 (A) of the IPC (promoting enmity between different groups on the ground religion, etc) was registered against him by the Pune as per police commissioner Amitabh Gupta. Anil Deshmukh, Home Minister of Maharashtra and the Member of Legislative Assembly from Katol in Nagpur has said that Sharjeel Usmani will be arrested.

पुण्यात ३० तारखेला झालेल्या एल्गार परिषदेत शर्जील उस्मानी याने केलेल्या आक्षेपार्ह वक्तव्याची व्हिडिओ क्लिपिंग पोलिसांनी तपासली असून त्याच्याविरुद्ध गुन्हा दाखल केला आहे. तो सध्या महाराष्ट्राबाहेर आहे. तो बिहार, उत्तरप्रदेश, गुजरातमध्ये कुठेही असला तरी आम्ही त्याला शोधून अटक करू. pic.twitter.com/sqZ66qDYFV
— ANIL DESHMUKH (@AnilDeshmukhNCP) February 3, 2021

“The Maharashtra Police have investigated the video clippings of the Elgaar event held on 30th in Pune and a case has been registered against Sharjeel Usmani for his offensive remarks. He is not currently in MH but we will arrest him from whichever state he is in, be it Bihar, UP, Gujarat or elsewhere,” said Anil Deshmukh in his remarks to the press.

The Elgaar Parishad meet was attended by writer Arundhati Roy, Justice (retd) B G Kolse Patil, journalist Prashant Kanojia, Dalit activist Satyabhama Suryawanshi and former IPS official S M Mushrif. The Elgaar Parishad was organised in Pune by the Bhima Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerna Abhiyaan, which is the birth anniversary of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research scholar of the University of Hyderabad whose suicide had created an uproar in 2016.