GURUGRAM: The director of a
skill development and training institute in Sikanderpur has filed a complaint against one of his student "for hurting his religious sentiments". He alleged that the accused had repeatedly passed offensive remarks about the director's religious practice.
DLF 1 police station has registered an FIR against the student, Manish (24) - who lives in Delhi's Mayur Vihar - under sections 506 (criminal intimidation), 298 (hurting religious sentiment) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the IPC.
In his complaint, Jasmeet Singh, director of Exponiq Engineering Services, said his institute, located near Sikanderpur metro station, provides skill development training to government and private sector institutions, as well as students.
"One of our students, Manish, first threatened my staff and his teacher, Satbir Singh, and then used objectionable words against my religion multiple times," said Singh.
He added Manish had called on his mobile phone two days back, threatened him and hurt his religious sentiments by passing outrageous comments about his hair and his religion. "Manish issued threats and used objectionable words about my religious practices and my religion," said Singh, adding he has the recording of the call.
The complaint was filed on August 17, following which, cops from DLF 1 police station investigated the matter and recorded statements of students and people working at the institute. A case was registered on Saturday. "The preliminary probe revealed the accused had issued a threat to a teacher as well as the institute's director, and also used objectionable language," said the cop, adding further investigation is in progress.
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