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This is an archive article published on April 29, 2016
Bhagat Singh row: Case in UP court against DU V-C, writers
The case has been filed in the court of Special Chief Judicial Magistrate (Kanpur Nagar) Gagan Kumar Bharti and the complainant has been identified as Harsh Kumar. Kumar’s statement was also recorded in the court Thursday, said his lawyer Vijay Bakshi.
Bakshi said Kumar has filed the case against Tyagi as the book was part of Delhi University’s syllabus, and against the book’s authors Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee and Sucheta Mahajan.
A case has been filed in a Kanpur court against Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Tyagi and three authors of the book India’s Struggle for Independence (1757-1858), in which Bhagat Singh is referred to as a “revolutionary terrorist”.
The case has been filed in the court of Special Chief Judicial Magistrate (Kanpur Nagar) Gagan Kumar Bharti and the complainant has been identified as Harsh Kumar. Kumar’s statement was also recorded in the court Thursday, said his lawyer Vijay Bakshi.
Bakshi said Kumar has filed the case against Tyagi as the book was part of Delhi University’s syllabus, and against the book’s authors Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee and Sucheta Mahajan.
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In his complaint, Kumar said calling freedom fighter Bhagat Singh a “revolutionary terrorist” amounted to defamation of the martyr.
The case was filed Thursday and the statement of the complainant was recorded the same day, said Kumar’s lawyer Bakshi. The court will take up the matter for hearing on May 11.
Bakshi said they have urged the court to summon the four persons and punish them under sections 499 and 500 (related to criminal defamation), 503 (criminal intimidation), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Human Resource Development had written to the DU V-C, urging him to “reconsider” the use of the book.
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