A Criminal Defamation Case was filed against Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on April 26. Yadav has been charged with defamation for his ‘Only Gujarati’s can be thug’ remarks at a speech in March this 12 months.
The grievance was filed against the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief by social employee and businessman Haresh Mehta, underneath Indian Penal Code sections 499 and 500 (coping with prison defamation) within the courtroom of extra metropolitan Justice of the Peace DJ Parmar.
“We submitted the complaint along with proof in form of a pen drive containing the statement. The court has accepted the complaint and will verify it on May 1,” Mehta’s lawyer P R Patel mentioned.
An analogous grievance was given by Sarva Gujarati Samaj in March this 12 months.
On March 23, the Sarva Gujarati Samaj Chhatisgarh handed over a grievance letter to the Superintendent of Police, Dhamtari District against the RJD supremo. Tejashwi is at the moment, the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar state. On 22nd March 2023, Tejashwi Yadav insulted the Gujarati neighborhood by suggesting that solely Gujaratis might be fraudsters and thugs within the present situation, his actions can not be forgotten because of the truth that each the Prime Minister and the Home Minister are Gujaratis.
The complainant Preetesh Gandhi wrote, “The statement made by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav in the media is highly condemnable. He has said in the media that only Gujaratis can be fraudsters”
“He has used such indecent words for benefitting his politics. This statement made by Tejashwi Yadav has hurt the Gujarati community as well as the entire Gujarati people”, Gandhi added additional.
“Only Gujaratis can be thugs in the present situation, and their fraud (crime) will be forgiven. Who will be responsible if they run away with the money belonging to LIC or banks?” the Bihar Deputy CM had allegedly in a speech referred to in these circumstances.
Yadav was talking on the Adani difficulty that had stalled Parliament. His accusation induced outrage in Gujarat.
The complainant mentioned he’s additionally a Gujarati, and when he got here throughout the information on a digital platform, he realised such a defamatory assertion will make a non-Gujarati look down upon a resident of the state as a ‘thug’.
It might be famous {that a} courtroom in Gujarat’s Surat metropolis in March convicted and sentenced Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to 2 years in jail over his “Modi surname” comment. After the conviction, the previous Congress president misplaced his Lok Sabha membership.
Separately, a courtroom in Ahmedabad has issued summonses to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh in a prison defamation case filed by the Gujarat University over their remarks on the institute.
