Charged With Sedition For Shouting "Pakistan Zindabad", Woman Arrested

Charged With Sedition For Shouting "Pakistan Zindabad", Woman Arrested

New Delhi: A sedition case has been filed against a woman in Bengaluru after she raised pro-Pakistan slogans at a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA. 

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen(AIMIM) Party leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, who was present at the event, distanced himself and his party from the sloganeering, saying, "We, in no way, support our enemy nation Pakistan."

The young woman, who shouted the slogan "Pakistan Zindabad" at the event is identified as Amulya and the event was organized under the banner of "Save Constitution".Asaduddin Owaisi and two other men, apparently the organizers, rush to stop her from chanting the slogan; they try to take away the microphone from her.

"Kya bol rahein hain aap (What are you saying)?" the AIMIM chief tells Amulya as she persists. "The difference between Hindustan Zindabad and Pakistan Zindabad is..," she is heard saying but several men stop her midway. 

After the event the woman was arrested last evening, a sedition case has been filed against her. "We have registered a suo moto case against her under sections 124A(sedition), 153A&B (promoting enmity between different groups) and imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration)," senior police officer B Ramesh said.

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 Later she was denied bail. and sent to three-day judicial custody, a local court will hear her bail petition on Monday.

However, Mr.Owaisi has clarified that his party had no link with the woman "Neither I nor my party has any link with her. The organizers should not have invited her here. If I knew this, I would not have come here. We are for India and we no way support our enemy nation Pakistan. Our entire drive is to save India," the AIMIM MP was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

Amulya's father, while speaking to news agency ANI, said: "What she said is wrong. She was joined by some Muslims and wasn't listening to me!"

JD(S) corporator Imran Pasha claimed she was sent by rivals to disrupt the event. The woman, he said, was not in the list of speakers and demanded that the police investigate the matter seriously, PTI reported.

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