Aashwin Shanker, Mumbai Uncensored, 22nd June 2021:
Invoking 15 sections of the IPC and three sections of the IT Act, Bijnor Police have booked journalist Vineet Narain and two others for falsely accusing the general secretary of the Ram Temple Trust in a Facebook post.
The Facebook post alleges that Champat Rai, general secretary of the Ram Temple Trust, had helped his brother grab 20,000 square meters of land in a cow shelter owned by NRI Alka Lahoti (also named in the FIR).
In his post Mr. Narayan has also mentioned that Alka Lahoti had been trying to get the encroachers evicted since 2018 and appealed to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to take action.
Sanjay Bansal in the FIR has mentioned that he wanted to clear the facts of the post when tried to get in touch with Mr. Narayan via phone but instead a man named Rajnish picked the call and started abusing, misbehaving and threatening to kill Mr Bansal. Among the 18 charges pressed against the three accusers, the most prominent ones are “promoting enmity on the grounds of religion”, providing “false evidence”, “cheating” and “trespass” among others. Bijnor police chief Dr Dharm Vir Singh said in the statement that the matter is under investigation. “The local police are investigating.
Mr Champat Rai is a senior leader of the VHP and a member of the Ram Temple Trust and the accusations against him by the accused are baseless and prima facie the accusations against his relatives are baseless too. We are ascertaining all the facts,” Bijnor police chief Dr Dharm Vir Singh said in the statement.
This is the second time in a short while that Champat Rai has been falsely dragged into a controversy concerning Ram Mandir. But it seems like the AAP Sanjay Singh accusations of land scam this controversy will also be proved untrue and misleading.
