The FIR was registered on the night of the procession after the complaints from the Sub Inspector of the Afzalgunj Police Station.
The Hyderabad Police had denied permission to BJP MLA T Raja Singh to conduct the Ram Navami Shobha Yatra in the city. (TigerRajaSingh/X)
Hyderabad police have registered an FIR against Goshamahal’s BJP MLA T Raja Singh for leading a Ram Navami procession on Wednesday, 17 April, without permission.
The FIR was registered on the night of the procession based on a complaint from a sub-inspector (SI) of the Afzalgunj Police Station.
Earlier, the BJP leader was denied permission to hold a Ram Navami Rally by Hyderabad police. However, police permitted another organisation to conduct rallies on the same route.
Taking advantage of the permission granted to the other organisation, Raja Singh led the rally where huge crowds gathered, and he also delivered hateful speeches.
According to the complaint by SI P Ramakishan, he was on Wednesday assigned bandobast duties for the Sri Rama Navami Festival.
He has to monitor the route and movements of the procession from Shankersher Hotel towards Gowliguda Afzalgunj limits along with his staff.
While he was at Gurudwara at about 10.15 pm, he noticed Raja Singh — along with one Joginder Singh Bittu and others — carrying out a procession without any prior permission obtained from the concerned authorities.
The SI said the procession, with a large number of devotees, started from the Mangalhat area and went towards Hanuman Vyamshala before proceeding to Sultan Bazar limits.
“When his rally reached the Central Gurudwara in Gowliguda, he stopped his procession and addressed the public, influencing them by his speech to gain the voters with wrongful restraint and causing congestion of traffic, and also lit firecrackers in huge crowds and created a public nuisance by violating the orders,” he said in his complaint.
The police registered the FIR under Section 341 (wrongful restraint), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant), 290 (public nuisance), and 171-C read with 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC, as well as Sections 21/76 and 67 (setting fire to or burning any rubbish or straw or any other matter) of the Commissioner of Police Act.
Hyderabad Police had denied permission to BJP MLA T Raja Singh to conduct the Ram Navami Shobha Yatra in the city.
However, another organisation got police permission for the Shobha Yatra on the same route in the old city.
Even after the police had rejected his application, Singh on Wednesday, 17 April, urged people to attend the Ram Navami celebration.
The call came even as the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) was in place for the Lok Sabha elections, whose first phase begins on Friday.
The police permitted an organisation named Bhagwantrao Bhagyanagar Utsav Samithi to take out the rally.
Taking advantage of the permission granted to the other organization, he led the rally where huge crowds gathered, and he also delivered hateful speeches.
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