Haridwar Dharma Sansad case: SC grants interim bail to accused Jitendra Tyagi

A Supreme Court bench granted the bail to Wasim Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi on medical grounds, on the condition that he would not indulge in hate speech and not give any media statement.
Wasim Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi arrested in Haridwar Dharma Sansad hate speech case: SC grants interim bail to him
Wasim Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi arrested in Haridwar Dharma Sansad hate speech case: SC grants interim bail to him
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday, May 17, granted three months of interim bail to Jitendra Narayan Tyagi on medical grounds in connection with the Haridwar Dharma Sansad case involving alleged inflammatory speeches made against Muslims. A bench comprising Justices Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath directed Tyagi, formerly known as Wasim Rizvi, to give an undertaking that he would not indulge in hate speech and not give any statement on electronic or digital, or social media.

Tyagi had approached the top court after the Uttarakhand High Court dismissed his bail plea in March this year. The case against him and others had been lodged on the complaint of Nadeem Ali, a resident of Jwalapur Haridwar at Haridwar Kotwali on January 2, 2022. He had alleged in his complaint that a Dharma Sansad or religious Parliament event was organised in Haridwar by Hindu sages from December 17 to 19 last year. In the garb of this event, the participants were instigated to wage a war against Muslims, the complaint said. 

Objectionable words were used against the holy Quran and Prophet Mohammad, Ali had said in his complaint, adding that these provocative statements had later gone viral on social media. These videos were circulated by Wasim Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi, Yati Narsinghanand, and others, he had alleged. The FIR also alleged that an attempt was made by Prabodhanand Giri to spread violence against the people living in Haridwar's mosques.

On Nadeem Ali's complaint, Narsindhanand Giri, Sagar Sindhu Maharaj, Dharamdas Maharaj, Parmanand Maharaj, Sadhvi Annapurna, Swami Anand Swaroop, Aswani Upadhyay, Suresh Chavan along with Swami Prabodhanand Giri, Jitendra Narayan were booked under Sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), 295 (injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class) and other relevant sections of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) for allegedly delivering hate speeches in the name of religion at the conclave.

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