Muzaffarpur: An FIR was on Monday lodged
here against West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee for "hurting religious sentiments" on Sethu
Samudram during a speech in 2007.
The FIR was lodged at Sadar police station in the
district on a directive of the Chief Judicial Magistrate.
Advocate Sudhir Ojha, had on December 10, 2007, moved the
court of the then Chief Judicial Magistrate Ram Daras seeking
legal action against Bhattacharjee for his reported statement
in Kolkata on December 7 that year.
Bhattacharjee had reportedly said "Ram bhagwan nahin
hai (Rama is not God)... Ramayana is not a Hindu epic and
Ram setu manav nirmit."
Ojha had accused the chief minister of 'hurting religious
sentiments' by his statement.
Dasras, had on June 26, 2008, directed the officer
in-charge of Sadar police station to probe into the matter and
report.
After an over one-and-a-half-year-long investigation,
police today registered the FIR and submitted a copy of the
compliance report to Chief Judicial Magistrate R C Malviya.
The FIR was lodged under sections 295 (injuring or
defiling place of worship, with intent to insult the religion
of any class), 295(A) (deliberate and malicious acts intended
to outrage religious feelings of a class by insulting its
religion or religious beliefs), 296 (disturbing religious
assembly) and 298 (uttering words with deliberate intent to
wound religious feelings) of the Indian Penal Code.
Bureau Report
First Published: Monday, October 05, 2009, 23:49