Sanction to prosecute Swamy in article case obtained, Delhi Police tells HC

The police on Tuesday informed the Delhi High Court that the necessary sanction to prosecute Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy in a case lodged against him on charge of writing an inflammatory article in 2011 has been obtained.

The Delhi Police had, on October 3, 2011, registered the case under Section 153-A (spreading enmity between communities) of the Indian Penal Code against Swamy.

The case was registered on a complaint from the National Commission for Minorities for writing the article in a Mumbai daily in July 2011, which allegedly sought revocation of the voting rights of Muslims

Justice I.S. Mehta, hearing a plea by Swamy for quashing the FIR, was told by the police that a draft charge sheet in the case was ready and would be filed soon.

 

--IANS

gt/tsb/dg