Former DU lecturer SAR Gilani, booked for sedition charges in connection with a Press Club event in New Delhi was today denied bail by a Delhi court. The Court said the slogans raised at this meeting could have incited violence and created public disorder. Metropolitan Magisrate Harvinder Singh dismissed Gilani’s bail plea after taking note of a CCTV footage produced by the police.
At the Press Club event, a group had allegedly shouted slogans hailing Guru, following which the police had lodged a case under sections 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of the IPC against Gilani and other unnamed persons. The police had claimed to have registered the FIR taking suo motu cognisance of media clips of the incident.