Court hears case against Bihar ministers

A case against two Bihar ministers and a police officer charging them with sedition and other offences for their controversial remarks and conduct respectively with regard to the killing of five jawans on the LoC in Poonch was heard by a local court today.
The case against ministers Bhim Singh and Narendra Singh and deputy superintendent of police Manish Kumar Singh was heard by judicial magistrate Ravi Ranjan, who fixed August 29 as the next date of hearing.
The case was filed by an advocate Ram Sandesh Roy under IPC sections 124A (sedition), 131 (abetting mutiny), 153A-1 (promoting enmity between different groups), 153B-A (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace).

Urging the court that the two ministers and the police officer be immediately removed from their posts, Roy told the court that if it was not done a case should be registered against the head of the government.
He said the remarks made by state Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh giving clean chit to Pakistan for the killing of the five soldiers had hurt the peoples sentiments.
"Rural Works and Panchayati Raj minister Bhim Singh too has shown disrespect towards our army and the people at large by saying that the soldiers are recruited in service to lay down their lives for the country," he said.

The petitioner also said the DSP, posted at Sachivalaya police station, too was guilty of causing hurt to public sentiments by wearing jeans and a T-Shirt while he was at Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Airport here to receive the bodies of four slain soldiers on August 8.