Activist Nadeem Khan created narrative to portray ‘particular community’ as victims, allege police

The Delhi Police told the High Court that Khan’s ‘nefarious acts’ had the potential to disrupt communal harmony and incite unrest.

Activist Nadeem Khan created narrative to portray ‘particular community’ as victims, allege police

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The police told the Delhi High Court that human rights activist Nadeem Khan shared information selectively and misleadingly in an attempt to create a narrative portraying members of a “particular community” as victims of systematic oppression by the current government, Live Law reported on Tuesday.

The police made the allegations in a status report filed in the court in response to a petition by Khan demanding that a case against him be quashed.

The Delhi Police have accused Khan, the national secretary of the Association for Protection of Civil Rights, of promoting enmity between groups and criminal conspiracy based on a widely shared video.

The first information report, seen by Scroll, pertains to an event in Hyderabad from November 14 to November 16, in which the Association for Protection of Civil Rights participated.

A member of Khan’s organisation told Scroll that the event had featured discussions on the Supreme Court’s guidelines on mob lynching, bulldozer demolitions and hate speech. The group was just one of the participants there, the APCR member added.

However, the police alleged before the High Court that Khan’s “nefarious acts” had the potential to “disrupt communal harmony, possibly inciting unrest or conflict between different communities”.

The police claimed that the nature of the information that the activist disseminated clearly showed that he intended to exploit historical and social sensitivities, PTI reported. They...

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