The city police late Saturday registered a case of sedition against unidentified persons for burning of a copy of the Constitution by anti-reservation activists during a protest at Parliament Street in New Delhi earlier this week.
The Deccan police station registered an FIR under sections 124 A (sedition), 153 A (promoting disharmony or enmity between two groups), 295 (defiling any place of worship or an object with intent to insult the religion of any class), 298 (uttering words with deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any person) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971 and the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The police acted on a complaint by Satish Gaikwad, a leader of the Ambedkarite outfit, the Republican Party of India (Secular).
Authorities said Mr. Gaikwad submitted a CD containing a clip of the incident in which members of an anti-reservation group are allegedly seen burning of a copy of the Constitution and raising slogans against B.R. Ambedkar and the SC/ST community.
This is the second FIR to be registered in this case after the Delhi police, on Friday had booked protesters of the anti-reservation ‘Youth for Equality’ (YFE) group for the action which caused a furore among Dalit groups in the country.
The video of YFE activists burning the Constitution, which went viral, prompted protests from Dalit outfits across the State. RPI (A) leader Ramdas Athawale, who is also Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, has demanded the culprits be arrested.