Karnataka girl charged with sedition for raising “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan

BANGALORE: Amulya Leona, a student activist from Karnataka was charged with sedition and sent to 14 days of judicial custody for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans.

In a video widely circulated in social media her speech is disrupted by a group of people who snatch away her mike as soon as she says Pakistan Zindabad.

“She (Amulya Leona) wanted to talk about what she had written in her Facebook post in the protest, but unfortunately she started with ‘Pakistan Zindabad’. Organisers should have allowed her to complete her speech,” said one of the friend, reported The Indian Express.

Amulya Leona's father is a local leader from Karnataka's Janata Dal Secular party had told his daughter to not make such statements, claim reports.

B Ramesh, DCP Bengaluru (West) said, “We have registered a suo moto case against Amulya under Section 124A (sedition), 153A and B (promoting enmity between different groups and imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration).”

Last year, the central government told the Rajya Sabha that it has no proposal to scrap the colonial era sedition law under which inciting hatred against the government is a punishable offence. “There is no proposal to scrap the provision under the Indian Penal Code dealing with the offence of sedition. There is a need to retain the provision to effectively combat anti-national, secessionist and terrorist elements,” Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said.

Rai was responding to a question raised by Telangana member Banda Prakash. The sedition law states that whoever, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the government shall be jailed without or with fine. Defence Minister and former Home Minister Rajnath Singh had earlier emphasized the need to make the sedition law stronger to deal with “anti-national’ elements.

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