Police may file chargesheet against Varun Gandhi

Lucknow, Jul 13 (PTI) With the government of India's
norhern state of Uttar Pradesh deciding to prosecute Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi, Pilibhit police may file a
chargesheet against the leader in a local court on Monday for
his alleged hate speeches made during poll campaign in March.

"As the government has granted prosecution sanction,
police may file a chargesheet against Varun under section
153(A)(promoting enmity on religious grounds), 125 of
Representation of the People Act and other relevant sections
of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)," official sources said here.

The state government granted prosecution sanction to the
Pilibhit police to file a chargesheet against Varun under
section 153(A) and issued an order on July 3.

"The government has given a go ahead to the District
Magistrate Pilibhit to file chargesheet against Varun, accused
of delivering inflammatory speeches during Lok Sabha polls,"
Secretary Home Mahesh Gupta had told reporters.

The Pilibhit administration, after receiving report from
Forensic Science Laboratory, Chandigarh that the CDs of
Varun's inflammatory speeches were not tampered, had sought
permission from the government to file chargesheet against the
BJP MP in June.

Cases were registered against Varun on March 17 at
Barkheda police station on direction of Election Commission
(EC) for allegedly delivering inflammatory speeches there on
March 8.

Another FIR was registered against Varun on March 19 for
allegedly delivering another hate speech in Desh Nagar
locality of Pilibhit town on March 7.

The cases were lodged under the provision of IPC including
section 153 (inciting communal feelings), Representation of
People's act and violation of model code of conduct. PTI