Lawyer who wants NIA probe into ‘anti-national protest’ is BJP member

Shah had felicitated Agnihotri and another senior counsel, Hari Shankar Jain, who had been associated with the cases related to Ram Janmabhoomi. In his address during the felicitation ceremony, Shah said both lawyers had raised important issues like Ram Janmabhoomi and Ram Setu. “Today, they have been felicitated for an issue related to national security,” Shah had added.

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Agnihotri also took part in an agitation at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on the call of Shankaracharya Swaroopananda Saraswati on Ram Setu issue in 2007.

Agnihotri completed her graduation in law from Lucknow University in 1994 and started taking up criminal cases. She claims to have appeared in cases in Lucknow and Allahabad benches of Allahabad High Court, the Supreme Court, and one case in Kolkata.

She joined the Ram Janmabhoomi title suit in 2000 as counsel for Akhil Bharatiya Ramjanma Punrodhhar Samiti of Bhopal.

Asked why she had filed the petition for NIA probe, Agnihotri said Monday, a factory of anti-national elements has been prepared in JNU. “The police were not getting cooperation on the campus in the inquiry of the recent incident. I have pleaded that the inquiry of the incident should be handed over to NIA and a judicial commission should be formed to probe involvement of students, teaching and non-teaching staff of the university in anti-national activities and also identify the forces who are behind such acts,” she said.

Agnihotri is also a general secretary in ‘Hindu Front for Justice’, an organisation she, Jain and BJP state media co-incharge Anita Agrawal formed three years ago as a legal helpline for Hindus. At present, the front is running a signature campaign across the country to garner public support for construction of Ram temple at the earliest”

“More than 12,000 persons have signed with their blood in five camps held so far in different districts including Lucknow, Faizabad and Bhopal. When we have 1.5 lakh signatures, it would be sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an appeal to initiate Ram temple construction,” said Agnihotri.