Madhya Pradesh police have registered a case against All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary and former chief minister of State, Digvijay Singh for his alleged 'insensitive' tweet on children posted while the sodomy charges against former finance minister Raghavji came to light recently.
The case against Singh was registered late on Saturday. A complaint in this regard was initially filed at the Shahpura police station of the State capital on July 19.
The complainant, Sangeet Verma, who is associated with RSS has underlined that the tweet of Singh in which he allegedly wrote "Baccha Baccha Ram Ka Raghavji Ke Kaam Ka" has hurt the majority community.
After taking legal opinion in the complainant, the police registered a case against Singh under section 295 A of the IPC (Deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and various sections of the IT Act. The officials said sections are non-bailable. The superintendent of police (SP), Anshuman Singh confirmed that a case has been registered against Singh.
As further course of action, he said statements would be recorded and the twitter account in question will be examined.Meanwhile, the local congress workers led by Bhopal district Congress Committee president PC Sharma held a protest at Shahpura police station against registration of the case.
Sharma talking to the media persons said that on many occasions the Congress leaders and workers tried to lodge complaint against many BJP leaders in same sort of issues but the police never lodged complaint, while the police has acted swiftly in lodging FIR against senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of the State in such a case whose clarification has already been given by him on the same social networking site where Digvijay tweeted.