Pilibhit police yet to seek prosecution sanction for Varun

BJP MP Feroze Varun Gandhi

Uttar Pradesh police today said they were yet to receive any proposal from Pilibhit to seek sanction to prosecute BJP MP Feroze Varun Gandhi after the Central Forensic Science Lab said the hate speech CD was not doctored.

Lucknow, Jun 22:Uttar Pradesh police today said they were yet to receive any proposal from Pilibhit to seek sanction to prosecute BJP MP Feroze Varun Gandhi after the Central Forensic Science Lab said the hate speech CD was not doctored.

State Additional Director General of Police (Crime, Law and Order) Brij lal said here that the Pilibhit police was yet to seek the prosecution sanction under Section 153(A) of the IPC as required to file the chargesheet in the case.

Refusing to give any detail of the Central Forensic Lab, Chandigarh report, he said, ''The report was sent to the court directly and now district police will seek the permission of the court to get the copy of the report to investigate the case.'' The ADG said the district police had sent the CD of the hate speech recorded by satellite news channel Voice of India (VOI), a mobile memory chip of the speech of Varun and a similar speech shot of the BJP leader recorded by a handicam for test to Chandigarh.

In the lab report it has been said all the three speeches were of the same person. Varun Gandhi, the BJP MP from Pilibhit, had earlier refused to give his voice sample to the UP police hence the police had sent three different voice record of the leader.

Mr Gandhi, against whom the UP government had invoked NSA in the hate speech incident, had alleged that the CD was doctored and it was a political conspiracy against him.

Varun was arrested in Pilibhit on March 28, on the charges of making inflammatory communal remarks at election meetings at Barkhera in his constituency on March 8.

NSA was enforced against him on March 29, but he was released from the Etah district jail on April 16, after he gave a fresh undertaking before the Supreme Court that he would not make any inflammatory speeches.

Altogether six cases have been registered against the hate speech of Mr Gandhi in different police stations of Pilibhit and chargesheet have been submitted in the court in some of the cases.

In his controversial speech, the BJP leader had said, ''If anyone raises a finger towards Hindus or if someone thinks that Hindus are weak and leaderless, if someone thinks that these leaders lick our boots for votes, then I swear on Gita that I will cut that hand.'' UNI