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A case was registered in two police stations against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and MLA in Telangana T Raja Singh on Tuesday, 12 April.
While the Shahinayathgunj police booked him over an allegedly provocative speech during a Ram Navami procession in Hyderabad, the Sultan Bazar police charged him and Bhagyanagar Sriram Navami Utsava Samiti president Bhagwanth Rao for allegedly violating conditions laid down in the police permission for the event.
“Raja Singh was accused of giving a speech and singing songs which are provocative in nature, and to create hatred and enmity between different religious communities,” a senior police official told PTI, adding that the police on its own took note of the matter and registered the case.
Meanwhile, another case was registered against Raja Singh and some organisers of the procession for allegedly violating the conditions of the police permission given for the rally on Sunday, police said.
“There was no permission for the DJ and he had one at the event. He also exceeded and violated the permitted time for the event,” investigation officer J Srikanth Reddy from the Sultan Bazar police station told TNM.
The main procession from Sitarambagh was led by Raja Singh and saw hundreds gather sporting saffron caps and scarves.
Huge speakers were set up to play high-decibel music and lyrics of the songs sung by Raja Singh had lines stating that the saffron flag would "soon be placed on every pillar in the country".
Raja Singh, the MLA from Goshamahal in the city, has been repeatedly accused of making communal statements and speeches. As per his affidavit filed with the Election Commission of India in December 2018, he has 43 criminal cases pending against him, most of them related to spreading enmity on religious grounds.
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