TN: Uma booked for speech on Ram Sethu

While the Rameshwaram town police station registered the case on Saturday morning, the Fort police station in Tiruchy registered an FIR at around 11.30 pm on Saturday night under IPC Sections 153A promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, etc and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony read with Section 506 clause 2 punishment for criminal intimidation.

Bharati had held demonstrations in Rameshwaram to oppose the dredging in the sea off the pilgrim town where it is believed that the Ram Sethu or the bridge built by Lord Rama exists.

8220;We have video as well audio recordings as evidence. We registered the FIR after taking legal opinion,8221; said Shankar Jiwal, Commissioner of Police, Tiruchy. Bharati finished her address at around 7 pm and by 11.30 pm the Fort police station in Tiruchy had registered a case against her.

The BJS leader left the town late on Saturday night by train for Bhopal via Chennai. During a press meet earlier on Saturday, she said she would undertake a padayatra from Rameshwaram to Ayodhya on the Ram Sethu issue.