Nearly a month after the Gujarat High Court directed the Mehsana district police to file an FIR in a March 2023 case of hate speech delivered by a leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) at a gathering in Kadi, an FIR was lodged on Monday for promoting enmity between groups and outraging religious feelings.
The FIR lodged at Kadi police station, a year and a half after the alleged incident took place at a gathering held by the VHP in the area, is based on the complaint of Vadodara-based Karuna Parmar, who is attached to the Lady Pillar hospital in Fatehgunj. In her complaint, Parmar has said that she is lodging the complaint on the instructions of the administrator of the hospital, Manjula Dominican Tuscano, who had moved the Gujarat High Court last year after her complaints to Mehsana district police seeking an FIR in the case had gone “unheard”.
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