The sudden incident embarrassed Owaisi and the anti-CAA rally organisers.
A young woman, identified as Amulya, was whisked away from the dais on Thursday, for shouting “Pakistan zindabad” at an anti-CAA rally here, police said.
“Amaulya, a student activist, was taken off the dais and detained for shouting ‘Pakistan zindabad’ at the rally in Freedom Park in the presence of AIMIM President Asauddin Owaisi and leaders of different faiths,” a police official told IANS here.
The sudden incident, which embarrassed Owaisi and the rally organisers - Hindu-Muslim-Sikh-Issai Federation, occurred when Amulya was called on the dais to address the gathering in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) under the banner of “Save Our Constitution”.
#WATCH The full clip of the incident where a woman named Amulya at an anti-CAA-NRC rally in Bengaluru raised slogan of ‘Pakistan zindabad’ today. AIMIM Chief Asaddudin Owaisi present at rally stopped the woman from raising the slogan; He has condemned the incident. pic.twitter.com/wvzFIfbnAJ - ANI (@ANI) February 20, 2020
“When Amulya resisted the organisers from addressing the gathering, our policewomen had to forcibly escort from the stage and detain her in a corner,” the police official added.
Regretting the incident and denouncing the activist, Owaisi said in Hindi-Urdu that he and his party was against such slogans as they are for India and proud of being Indians.
Sent to judicial custody
Amulya was denied bail by a judicial magistrate over the incident.
She will be kept in judicial custody for three days and the matter will come up before the local court on Monday.
“We have registered a suo moto case under Section 124A (sedition), 153A and B (promoting enmity between different groups and imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration). Once formalities are completed, we will produce Amulya before a judicial magistrate,” B Ramesh, DCP Bengaluru (West) said.
