Lagatar24 Desk
Haridwar, Jan 2: A five-member special investigating team (SIT) has been constitutes to probe the case of alleged hate speeches delivered at the Dharma Sansad in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, in mid-December.
According to the Garhwal deputy inspector general, Karan Singh Nagnyal, the SIT will be led by a superintendent of police and legal action will be taken against those found guilty.
“A 5-member SIT has been constituted under an SP-level officer to probe the matter of the Dharma Sansad hate speech case in Haridwar. Legal action to be taken against those found guilty,” said Garhwal deputy inspector general, Karan Singh Nagnyal.
Meanwhile, the Haridwar Police have added two new names, Yati Narasimhanand and Sindhu Sagar to a FIR filed in connection with the Haridwar gathering where comments inciting violence against Muslims were allegedly delivered, officials said on Saturday. From December 16 to 18, the event was place at Ved Niketan Dham in Haridwar for three days.
“Section 295 of the Indian Penal Code (destruction, damage of a place of worship or an object held sacred) was also added to the FIR apart from Section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language),” said Ashok Kumar, Director-General of Police, Uttarakhand.
Haridwar circle officer Shekhar Suyal said the names of Ghaziabad’s Dasna temple priest Yati Narasimhanand, who was the event organiser, and seer Sindhu Sagar were added to the FIR.
Earlier, the police had informed that besides, Waseem Rizvi alias Jitendra Tyagi, Sadhvi Annapurna, Dharamdas, Yati Narasimhanand and Sindhu Sagar have been also booked in the case.
Yati Narasimhanand, the controversial priest of Dasna temple, had been out of the ambit of the probe so far.
Notably, Rizvi, who was earlier the president of Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board, had changed his name to Jitendra Narayan Tyagi after converting to Hinduism.
