Hyderabad: The Telangana state government on Monday informed the Hyderabad High Court that it had accorded sanction to prosecute MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi in alleged hate speech cases pending against him in Nizamabad and Nirmal police stations.
Home department counsel Venugopal told a division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice P. Naveen Rao that the Nizamabad police had filed a chargesheet in the case.
Hyderabad HC dismisses plea on Akbar
The state government informed the Hydera-bad High Court that it had accorded sanction to prosecute MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi in alleged hate speech cases. When the bench asked whether the government had sanctioned his prosecution or not, counsel replied in the positive.
The bench then disposed of the petition by city resident Syed Taraq Quadri seeking to direct the police to complete investigation in the FIRs registered against Mr Owaisi in 2013.
The two cases were registered suo motu, one at the Nirmal police station in Adila-bad and another at Nizamabad II Town police station on December 8 and 22, 2012, against Mr Owaisi for alleged hate speech. The police had booked cases under charges of sedition and waging war against the nation.
He was arrested by the Nirmal police fr-om the Gandhi Hos-pital in Hyderabad on January 8, 2013, and was lodged in the Adilabad district jail. He was released on February 16, 2013.
