Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey booked for speech against Veer Savarkar

Aligarh: Magsaysay Award-winning human rights activist Sandeep Pandey has been booked for allegedly making inappropriate comments against Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar.

The complaint has been filed by the national Vice-President of Hindu Mahasabha, Rajiv Kumar, who has claimed that Sandeep Pandey made the comments while addressing anti-citizenship law protesters at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Sunday. The FIR has been lodged at the Civil Lines police station under Sections 153 A (provocation with intent to cause riots) and 505 (1)b (inciting public or community to commit an offense) of the Indian Penal Code.

In his address, he had claimed that ‘masked goons’ hired by some right-wing organizations had disrupted peaceful protests in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia and AMU, and they were the real culprits behind the violence in these institutions. (IANS)

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