Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Aug 3: Five leaders of Hindu organizations, who have been booked by the police by registering FIRs against them relating to disturbances during the funeral procession of slain Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist, Sharath Madiwala, have sought these FIRs to be quashed.

These petitions came up for consideration before a single judge bench of the HC presided over by Justice Aravind Kumar, on Wednesday August 2. Satyajit Suratkal, Harish Punja, Muralikrishna Hasantadka, Sharan Pumpwell, and Pradeep Kumar, have sought the FIRs filed against them under various sections of Indian Penal Code, to be dismissed.

The bench asked the police to file their objections for this application. It said that it will consider issuance of interim order as sought by the petitioners once these objections are filed, before adjourning hearing.

Advocate for the petitioners argued that the accused had no connection with the stone pelting incident during the said procession and said that it was wrong on the part of the police to have booked them under provisions relating to whipping up of communal passions. He accordingly sought the FIR to be quashed.