Shinde terror remark case: Arguments on
summoning minister March 7
Monday February 18, 2013 10:32:31 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A Delhi
court Monday posted for March 7 the hearing on arguments on
whether to summon Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in a defamation
case filed against him for his remarks linking the BJP and the RSS
to terrorism.
Metropolitan Magistrate Amitabh Rawat, taking on record all
evidence submitted so far in the case, fixed the date for
arguments for March 7.
The court had earlier recorded the pre-summoning evidence of
petitioner V.P. Kumar, alleging that Shinde had wilfully made the
derogatory remarks to cause ill will and hatred among communities.
In the plea, Kumar had alleged that Shinde's remarks were aimed at
"polarising minority votes in the 2014 general elections". He
further added that Shinde has used the word "saffron as synonym of
terrorism", which is "totally absurd, wrong, mischievous and
defamatory".
"The impugned statement is not only defamatory in its natural
meaning but also contains the imputation and insinuation that
Hindu religion is involved in anti-national and terrorist
activities," the plea said.
Shinde during the Congress "Chintan Shivir" Jan 20 in Jaipur
accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its mentor, the
Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), of conducting terror training
camps and promoting "Hindu terrorism".
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