A case under Sections 153(A) of IPC has been slapped against VHP leader Sadhvi Balika Saraswati from Madhya Pradesh who was the star speaker at the Hindu Samajotsava at Mangalore. Police said the case has been booked based on a complaint from Suresh Bhat Bakrabail, Dakshina Kannada District President of Komu Souharda Vedike, an organisation that professes by communal harmony. Section 153(A) states that any person who tries to trigger disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will between different religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities in any manner is liable for prosecution.

Sadhvi, in her speech, had said "People who eat and live in India and praise Pakistan should be hit with shoes and sent to Pakistan." How this statement attracts section 153(A) of IPC, I am not able to understand. What she told is true to every Indian. People who eats and lives in India and praises Pakistan’s terrorist activities against India should be considered as traitors’, no doubt on that. We have heard many politicians including ministers, especially from Uttar Pradesh, preaching in support of Pakistan and screaming for minority rights when anybody condemns their very treacherous act. Recently the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir praised Pakistan, militants and separatists for peaceful elections undermining the earnest efforts put by the people of Jammu and Kashmir, election commission and the uniformed forces. In reality Pakistan, militants and separatists tried their level best to sabotage the election.

The case against Sadhvi Balika Saraswati is against the law and is done only to make happy the so called pseudo secularists. The registration of case has to be condemned by one and all who are Indians.

By Premji