Delhi Govt Recommends Sanction of Prosecution Against Swamy
DNA had published an article by Subramanian Swamy on July 16, 2011 titled “How to wipe out Islamic terror.”
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Delhi government has recommended the sanction of prosecution against BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in connection with a case of writing an allegedly “inflammatory” article in a Mumbai daily in 2011.
DNA had published an article by Subramanian Swamy on July 16, 2011, titled How to Wipe Out Islamic Terror.
Sources said the file on the issue has been sent to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung for his approval.
The matter was examined in the Home Department and it has found that Swamy, by publishing the alleged article, had committed an act of “gross impropriety” and tried to “break the secular fabric of India culture”.
Sanction was also given against four others in connection to the case which was filed against Swamy in October 2011 by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police. A complaint filed by the National Commission for Minorities said that the article was “intended to spread communal enmity”.
“The matter was further referred to Law Department which, after examining the matter has opined that by publishing the article....an attempt had been made to promote disharmony, ill-will and enmity between different religious groups.” a source said.
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