Seventeen members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were on Thursday sentenced to three years imprisonment and a penalty of `1000 for raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at court premises on May 17, 2014.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Rakesh Kumar Sharma on Thursday pronounced the judgment.
On May 17, 2014 at around 5.3 pm the SIMI members were produced in the special court of Justice BS Bhadoria and when they were taken to the court inside the court premises they started raising slogans like ‘Taliban Zindabad, Islam Zindabad, Pakistan Zindabad, Allahu Akbar’ and Palestine, Afghanistan aur Pakistan par Hamara Raj Hoga’.
After the hearing on their way back they shouted loudly inside the police vans that ‘Hume Allah ne isi kaam ke liye duniya main bheja and hum isme zarur kamyaab honge’. They also raised slogans ‘ Abki baar Narendra Modi ki baari hai’.
Apart from these slogans they raised inciting religious sentiments and rose anti religious slogans.
After the incident an FIR was registered by DSP Santosh Kaul. A case under section 295 A 153 B and 34 of the IPC and section 10 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against 18 SIMI activists, while one of them died in the jail break encounter. The terrorist were brought to the court under tight security and while they were taken to the vehicle Abu Faizal who escaped from Khandwa jail started raising anti Modi slogans and following him other terrorists started to raise slogans.
