National Conference (NC) leader, Hilal Lone has been arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for allegedly delivering a hate speech during last year’s DDC elections.
Lone, as per the officials was arrested on Monday from the MLA hostel.
Former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday
lashed out at the centre for booking Hilal Lone under UAPA.
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Omar Abdullah, who is the Vice President of NC, alleged that the BJP has a completely different
standard when it comes to hate speech from its own leaders.
“The BJP has a completely different standard when it comes to hate speech from its own leaders. They can call for hands to be cut off, people to be murdered & it’s fine. Hilal Lone makes a speech & anti-terror laws are used to book him,” he tweeted.
The BJP has a completely different standard when it comes to hate speech from its own leaders. They can call for hands to be cut off, people to be murdered & it’s fine. Hilal Lone makes a speech & anti-terror laws are used to book him. https://t.co/L6ydSTZdI8
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) February 16, 2021
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President, Mehbooba Mufti alleged that the ‘centre continues to shamelessly book Kashmiri mainstream leaders under UAPA for hate speech’.
GOI continues to shamelessly book Kashmiri mainstream leaders under UAPA for ‘hate speech’. The truth is that there wont be enough room in Indian prisons if their own ministers, lawmakers & noxious IT Cell were brought to book for inciting communal passions against minorities https://t.co/7XXGQi23AF
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) February 16, 2021
