Two more cases filed against Qureshi

A CASE was filed against Uttar Pradesh minister Haji Yaqoob Qureshi in a local court here on Tuesday for declaring the controversial reward of Rs 51 crore to anyone killing the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Prophet Mohammad recently.

A CASE was filed against Uttar Pradesh minister Haji Yaqoob Qureshi in a local court here on Tuesday for declaring the controversial reward of Rs 51 crore to anyone killing the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Prophet Mohammad recently.

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The complaint was filed by local advocate Neelkanth Tiwari in the judicial magistrate’s court here.

In the complaint , Tiwari has sought prosecution of the minister for allegedly inciting the murder of the Danish cartoonist and also breaching the provisions of the Indian Constitution as he was occupying a responsible public post.

The case will come up for hearing on March 22 after recording of the statement of the complainant. It may be mentioned that Qureshi had recently announced a reward of Rs 51 crore along with gold equal to the weight of the Danish cartoonist to anybody killing the cartoonist, at a public meeting in Meerut during a protest demonstration against the publication of the cartoon.Qureshi had publicly announced thatwhosoever attempted to depict the Prophet in such a manner would be declared an enemy of Islam.

Meanwhile, a criminal case was also filed against Qureshi in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Lucknow on Wednesday.

The petition was filed by a local journalist Jagdish Narain Shukla through counsel Sandeep Dixit. The petitioner prayed that the court should order the Hazratganj police to register a case against Qureshi for inciting communal disharmony and disturbance.CJM DN Mishra has directed the police to file a reply and fixed the next date of hearing on February 28.