2 Delhi BJP leaders lodge complaint against Navjot Sidhu’s ex-adviser Malwinder Mali

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 27

Delhi BJP leaders RP Singh and Tejinder Singh Bagga on Friday lodged a criminal complaint against Malwinder Mali, former adviser to Punjab Congress president Navjot Sidhu, at the Parliament Street police station here.

The complaint against Mali accuses him of offences, including waging war against the Government of India, sedition and treason.

The complaint has been filed under various sections of the “Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 66-F of the Information Technology Act, 2000, along with other relevant provisions of the law, including the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967”, for his Facebook post on Kashmir.

“We will pursue the matter seriously and take it to its logical conclusion,” RP Singh said.

In the complaint, RP Singh and Bagga accused Mali of offences like “waging war or attempting to wage war against the Government of India, sedition, treason, provocation with malafide intent to cause regional disharmony, riot, public nuisance, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace promoting enmity, hatred or ill-will between classes, etc”.

RP Singh, BJP’s national spokesperson, and Bagga, BYJM’s national secretary, said they were “shocked and surprised to read a post on Facebook post, dated August 17, on the official page of Mali.

Referring to him as “accused” in the complaint, they said the “post relates to Kashmir and clearly threatens the sovereignty of the Indian Republic with malafide intentions which may create disharmony, hatred and even violence in few sections of the society.

“It is necessary to take cognizance of such an act that aims to spread separatism, hatred and sedition against the Indian Union,” they said, urging for an “immediate action” against Mali.