The Delhi Government has recommended sanction of prosecution against BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in connection with a case of writing an allegedly “inflammatory” article in a Mumbai daily in 2011.
Sources said the file on the issue has been sent to lt Governor Najeeb Jung for his approval.
They said the matter was examined in the Home Department and it has found that Swamy, by publishing the alleged article, had committed an act of “gross impropriety” and have tried to “break the secular fabric of India culture”.
Sanction was also given against four others in connection with the case which was filed against Swamy in October 2011 by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police on a complaint from the National Commission for Minorities, for writing in July that year that alleged inflammatory article, which a complaint said was “intended to spread communal enmity”.
“The matter was further referred to the law Department who after examining the matter has opined that by publishing the article — an attempt had been made out to promote disharmony, ill-will and enmity between different religious groups.” a source said. It may be noted that the case was initiated by the UPA Government in 2001 when Swamy arch rival P. Chidambaram was Home Minister.
Swamy went to Delhi High Court and stayed further procedures in the case. Recently, the Delhi Government led by AAP intervened in the case leading to the objections by additional solicitor general.
High court has posted the next hearing on May 14 asking the Delhi Government and Centre to decide who will represent the Delhi Police.