Via PTI
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad Top Courtroom on Friday refused to quash an FIR towards Lucknow College professor Ravi Kant Chandan over his remarks at the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
The bench, on the other hand, directed the Hasanganj police to not arrest Chandan with out complying to the provisions of the code of legal procedures.
The FIR used to be registered towards the professor for allegedly hurting the spiritual sentiments of Hindus amongst different fees in response to a grievance by means of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, which is the scholar wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
He used to be accused of constructing objectionable feedback over the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi advanced in Varanasi right through a debate on an internet portal.
A bench of justice Arvind Kumar Mishra and justice Manish Mathur handed the order at the petition filed by means of the professor.
It used to be argued on behalf of the professor that the offences alleged within the FIR had been punishable with a most of 7 years however police had been pressurising to make his arrest with out complying to the provisions enshrined below segment 41(1)(b) learn with segment 41(A) of CrPC.
Those provisions mandate police to not make arrest with out issuing realize to the accused and acquiring warrant from the involved court docket.
Previous, the bench mentioned that FIR in query disclosed a cognizable offence and therefore there used to be no instance for the court docket to quash the FIR.
Chandan used to be allegedly assaulted by means of a scholar at the campus on Wednesday, days after he induced an argument along with his remarks at the temple.