Karnataka HC stays probe against YouTuber Ajeet Bharti for comments on Rahul Gandhi, Ram temple
Bharti had claimed that the Congress leader plans to replace the temple in Ayodhya with a new Babri mosque.
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The Karnataka High Court on Monday stayed the investigation of a case filed against YouTuber Ajeet Bharti by the Bengaluru Police for allegedly making false claims about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Bharti had claimed that Gandhi plans to replace the Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya with a new Babri mosque.
Justice M Nagaprasanna, while staying the case on Monday, observed that Bharti’s claim was based on newspaper reports about a statement by a former Congress leader.
“The petitioner is also tweeted with regard to such claim, it becomes a claim versus claim,” the court said. “Therefore, the genesis of the problem lies in the claim as afore-quoted, which has resulted in the tweet by the petitioner.”
Justice Nagaprasanna said that the investigation in the case could not proceed unless the truthfulness of the claims was verified.
The Ram temple is being built on the site of the Babri mosque, which was demolished by Hindutva extremists in December 1992 because they believed that it stood on the spot where the Hindu deity Ram was born. The incident had triggered communal riots across the country.
In November 2019, the Supreme Court held that the demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992 was illegal, but handed over the land to a trust for a Ram temple to...
