Sedition charge against Amnesty India after slogan shouting
According to an NDTV report, Amnesty International's India chapter has said it has not yet received a copy of a FIR. It has questioned why "organising an event to defend constitutional values is now being branded 'anti-India' and criminalized."
The allegation of sedition has been levelled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, while the ruling Congress denied any such incident having taken place.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the students' wing of the BJP, has written a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh seeking the Centre's intervention and punishment of the organisation.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and state BJP president B.S. Yeddyurappa has claimed that there is a video which clearly depicts the people who indulged in anti-India sloganeering.
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