Hate speech case: Kalicharan Maharaj now in custody of Wardha police in Maharashtra

The Wardha police took custody of Kalicharan Maharaj from Chhattisgarh Police for his alleged hate speech abusing Mahatma Gandhi. He was arrested by the Pune police too earlier.

Hindu religious leader Kalicharan Maharaj (Screenshot)

THE WARDHA police on Tuesday took the custody of Kalicharan Maharaj from the Raipur Police in Chhattisgarh for allegedly targeting a minority community, abusing Mahatma Gandhi and hailing his assassin Nathuram Godse during a ‘Dharam Sansad’ held in Raipur on December 26.

Kalicharan Maharaj alias Abhijit Sarag is a resident of Shivajinagar in Akola in Maharashtra.

He was brought to Wardha city on Tuesday and spent the night in the lock-up at Sewagram police station. “He was produced before a magistrate court on Wednesday afternoon and remanded to judicial custody,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police Piyush Jagtap.

An FIR under sections 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) and 505 (2) (public mischief) was registered against Kalicharan at the Wardha city police station on a complaint from Congress leader Manoj Chandurkar.

Last week, the Pune Police had arrested Kalicharan in an FIR registered at Khadak police station for an alleged hate speech he gave during the ‘Shivpratap Din’ programme held in the city on December 19.

While he has also been booked by City Kotwali police station in Akola and Naupada police station in Thane in cases of hate speech, he was arrested by the Raipur Police in a similar case recently.

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