Video: SP leader asks people to boycott shops run by BJP supporters, booked

Muzaffarnagar, July 23

An FIR has been filed against Samajwadi Party MLA from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district for allegedly asking people to boycott shops being run BJP supporters, police said on Tuesday.

The FIR was filed on Monday evening after a video, in which the MLA, Nahid Hasan, was seen making the appeal, went viral, they said.

Ganga- Jamuna tehzeeb exposed!

SP MLA from Kairana Nahid Hasan publicly tells Muzlims to boycott shops of BJP supporters!

Imagine the Outburst by the Lutyens Media if this MLA was Sadhvi pragya!

I urge @myogiadityanath to take strictest action against this MLA!

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— Aviral sharma (@sharmaAvl) July 22, 2019

In the controversial video, Hasan is seen asking people to boycott shops being run by BJP supporters in Kairana, Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar said.

He has been booked under sections 153 (wantonly giving provocation to cause riot), 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code, the SP said.

An inquiry has been ordered into the matter and the probe has been handed over to ASP Rajesh Srivastava, Kumar said. PTI