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By Santosh Kumar Sharma: Three months after an FIR was registered against SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya over his controversial remark on Ramcharitmanas, Hazratganj Police has filed a chargesheet against the leader.
In a remark that stoked a controversy, the SP leader had said there exist several crores of people who have not or do not read Ramcharitmanas.
He said it was the British era that gave Dalits the right to read and write and that women got their right to be literate under the British Raj.
He went on to say that the Hindu religious text was ‘all nonsense’ and urged the government to erase the objectionable part of Ramcharitmanas or should ban the entire book. According to him, the said religious text accords low caste to ‘Shudras‘. Also, he said that Tulsidas wrote the text for his own happiness.
The case against Swami Prasad Maurya was lodged at the Hazratganj police station under relevant sections of the IPC, including 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), 298 (deliberate intention of wounding religious feelings), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 153 A (wanton vilification or attacks upon the religion, race, place of birth, residence etc).
However, sections slapped on Swami Prasad Maurya do not exceed the punishment tenure of more than seven years.
After the filing of the chargesheet, the SP leader will be facing a proceeding in court.
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