The Delhi Police Special Cell has registered a case against eight, including expelled Delhi BJP media head Naveen Kumar Jindal, suspended spokesperson Nupur Sharma, journalist Saba Naqvi, and others in cases related to hurting religious sentiments. Speaking to The Indian Express, DCP K.P.S. Malhotra said the FIR against multiple individuals cut across religions and will investigate the roles of various social media entities in promoting false and wrong information with an intention to create unrest on the cyber space. "We have lodged an FIR under several IPC sections against those who were spreading messages of hate, inciting various groups and creating situations which are detrimental to the maintenance of public tranquility," he said.
Included in the list are Hindu Mahasabha officer Puja Shakun Pandey, Peace Party's Shadab Chauhan and Maulana Mufti Nadeem—accused of inflammatory speech—from Rajasthan.
The BJP on Sunday suspended Nupur Sharma and expelled its Delhi unit media head Naveen Kumar Jindal after a row over their alleged derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammad escalated with protests from some Muslim countries. Sharma's comments, made in a TV debate nearly recently, and Jindal's now-deleted tweets sparked a Twitter trend calling for a boycott of Indian products in some Arab countries.
