Uttarakhand Police have arrested former chairman of Shia Waqf Board, Wasim Rizvi now known as Jitendra Narayan Tyagi on Thursday, 13 January, in connection with the three-day-long hate speech conclave organised in Haridwar in December 2021.
Earlier in December, the police had registered a case against Wasim Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi and others under Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, etc) in Haridwar police station.
According to Swatantra Kumar, SP City Haridwar, he was arrested from Haridwar and later sent to judicial remand for 14 days by a local court.
Later, 10 persons, including former Chief of Shia Waqf Board Wasim Rizvi, Dasna temple priest Yati Narsinghanand, and Hindu Mahasabha general secretary Annapurna, were named in a First Information Report (FIR) filed at the Jwalapur police station in Haridwar.
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Others who were booked were Sindhu Sagar, Dharamdas, Parmananda, Anand Swaroop, Ashwini Upadhyay, Suresh Chahwan, and Prabodhanand Giri.
Tyagi is the first accused to be arrested in the hate speech case.