Music composer Vishal Dadlani has been booked by Haryana police for allegedly hurting religious sentiments with his sarcastic tweet on Jain monk Tarun Sagar, police said today. Ambala Cantt police registered a case against Dadlani and one Tahseen Poonawala even as Jain community members staged a protest outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwals residence in the national capital, demanding the immediate arrest of the composer. Delhi PWD Minister and AAP leader Satyendar Jain, who met Sagar in Chandigarh today, said efforts were on to politicise the whole issue and that the matter should be put to rest, claiming the monk has forgiven the guilty.
The case against Dadlani and Poonawala in Ambala was registered under relevant sections including 153A (promoting enmity between classes), 295A (maliciously insulting the religion or religious beliefs of any class) and 509 of the IPC (uttering any word or making any gesture to insult the modesty of a woman etc), police said. Poonawala is a Congress activist who had also tweeted on the Jain monk. The case was registered on a complaint filed by Punit Arora, a resident of Ambala Cantonment who is said to be a follower of the monk.
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