Varun agrees not to make "provocative" speeches

New Delhi, Apr 13 (PTI) India's main opposition party
BJP leader Varun Gandhi, who has been booked under the
National Security Act for his alleged hate speeches, may get a
reprieve with the apex court, Supreme Court Monday suggesting
that he should give an undertaking not to make any provocative
speeches if granted interim bail and the BJP candidate
accepting it.

The suggestion that 29-year-old Varun should furnish
such an undertaking came from a Bench headed by Chief Justice
K G Balakrishnan on a petition by the BJP leader challenging
his detention under NSA.

Senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for UP
government, and Pilibhit's District Magistrate said that if
Varun gives an undertaking to the Court that he will not
create a volatile situation after being released, then it has
no objection to his getting interim bail.

After getting the nod of the state government,
Varun's counsel and senior advocate Mukul Rohtagi said that
the BJP leader would give an undertaking as suggested by the
apex court.

The hearing in the case was adjourned till April 16.

Varun was detained under NSA on March 28 on charges
of inciting communal passion by making provocative and
inflammatory speeches during election meetings in Pilibhit on
March seven and eight. He was lodged in the district jail in
Pilibhit and later moved to Etah jail for security reasons.
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