Updated: October 5, 2020 2:51:31 pm
Uttar Pradesh police claimed they have uncovered an “international plot” to instigate caste-based riots and smear the Yogi Adityanath government for the brutal assault and alleged robbery of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras. On Sunday, an FIR against unidentified persons was registered at the Chandpa police station in Hathras under various strict sections of the IPC, including sedition.
According to sources, a website, justiceforhathrasvictim.carrd.co, which had information on how to safely protest and avoid the police, has been linked to the conspiracy. The site has been removed and is currently unavailable. He also listed the dos and don’ts of staying safe during riots and in situations where police fire tear gas, sources said. Most of the content has been drawn from literature shared online by Black Lives Matters protesters in the United States of America, they added.
The police station in charge of Chandpa confirmed to The Indian Express that an FIR has been filed, but declined to comment further on the case. ADG Law and Order Prashant Kumar could not be reached for comment on the matter.
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The FIR was registered under articles 109 (complicity if the act instigated is committed accordingly and where its sanction is not expressly established), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 124A (sedition), 153 A (promotion of enmity between different groups for reasons of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and perform acts detrimental to the maintenance of harmony) and four of its subsections, 153 B (imputations, assertions harmful to national integration), 420 (deception and dishonesty induce handover of property) of the IPC
Other sections include the fabrication of false evidence with the intention of obtaining a conviction for a crime punishable by life imprisonment or imprisonment, threatening anyone with providing false evidence, falsification, forgery in order to damage the reputation and printed material or engraving known to be defamatory. Sections of the Information Technology (IT) Act have also been invoked.
This comes after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath warned BJP workers of “conspiracies“Against his government and asked them to” denounce those who want to incite castes and communal disturbances “in the country and the state.
“Those who do not like development, want to incite caste and communal riots in the country and state and want to stop development,” Adityanath said after attending a review meeting for the upcoming by-elections in seven electoral districts of the assembly.
“These people want to earn political mileage in the context of the riots, and that is why they are hatching new conspiracies every day,” he added.
During his interaction with party workers on Sunday, Adityanath said that a lot of development work has been done, especially during the pandemic, that his political rivals “are having a hard time digesting.”
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