A complaint was registered before a court here on Tuesday against a Bihar minister and several political leaders from Jammu & Kashmir for giving statements opposing the move of the BJP-led Central Government on abrogation of the provisions Article 370 of the Constitution in Jammu & Kashmir.
The petition was filed by lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha before the chief judicial magistrate’s court. The petitioner has named Shyam Rajak, a senior JD(U) leader and a member of the Nitish Kumar cabinet in Bihar, former Jammu and Kashmir CMs Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti among others in his petition.
Ojha has also named former attorney general Soli Sorabjee, besides two MPs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) headed by Mufti as respondents in his petition.
He has alleged that the respondents opposed the Centre’s move at the behest of foreign powers and contended that they should be booked for treason. Ojha has invoked sections 124(A) (sedition) and 120(B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in his petition, which has been posted for hearing on August 17.