Objectionable post on Gyanvapi mosque: Gujarat AIMIM leader gets bail

AHMEDABAD: A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Friday granted bail to All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen's (AIMIM) Gujarat spokesperson Danish Qureshi who was arrested by the police charges of hurting religious sentiments by a post on Lord Shiva in connection with Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque controversy on social media platforms.
Qureshi’s lawyer Shoeb Bhohiria said that he was ordered to be released on routine bail conditions by additional chief metropolitan magistrate B H Ghasura.
Qureshi was arrested by the city crime branch an hour after registration of an FIR for his post on a micro-blogging site on Tuesday evening on reports about the alleged discovery of a ‘Shivling’ inside the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi during a court-mandated videography survey.
The police found Qureshi’s post objectionable and booked him under IPC Sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) and 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act (transmitting obscene materials in electronic form.
The FIR was filed after a Hindu organisation brought Qureshi’s post to the cops’ notice.