March 05, 2026 08:30 pm (IST)
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Vaidik-Saeed meeting: Vaidik booked on sedition charges
Varanasi, July 16 (IBNS): Coming under storm for meeting India's most wanted terrorist Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan during a trip of journalists to that country, journalist and Ramdev aide Ved Pratap Vaidik has been booked on sedition charges in Uttar Pradesh.
The Varanasi court will hear the case on July 25.
The case was filed against Vaidik by a lawyer named Kamlesh Tripathi from Varanasi first for the meeting with Saeed and second for his controversial remark over Azad Kashmir in an interview to Pakistan's news Channel Dawn News.
Earlier, the Shiv Sena, an ally of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the NDA government, has attacked their big partner over the issue.
Amid opposition uproar over the issue in Parliament, Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana Wednesday said the government in New Delhi cannot just shrug off its responsibility by saying it has nothing to do with the meeting.
It said if Congress were in power, the BJP would have attacked it on the issue. Shiv Sena said the government should go deep into the matter.
Shiv Sena said if Vaidik is let off then tomorrow anyone will go and have biriyani with Dawood Ibrahim or Tiger Memon or Hafiz Saeed.
Sena called the meeting as one amounting to sedition.
According to his Wikipedia profile, Ved Pratap Vaidik is a scholar, political analyst and free lancer columnist of India. It says he had been with Press Trust of India as the founder-editor of its Hindi news agency “Bhasha”. Before that he was the Editor (views) in Nav Bharat Times. At present, he is the Chairman of Bhartiya Bhasha Sammelan.
Baba Ramdev defended Vaidik and said he met Saeed as a senior journalist and tried to change his heart.
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