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Hijab row: Actor, activist Chetan Kumar Ahimsa arrested after suo moto FIR over tweet

Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Web Team |Provide: DNA webdesk |Updated: Feb 22, 2022, 10: 20 PM IST

Kannada movie actor and activist Chetan Kumar Ahimsa changed into as soon as arrested by Bengaluru Metropolis Police on Tuesday (February 22) after a suo moto FIR changed into as soon as registered in opposition to him below Sections 505(2) and 504 of the IPC earlier within the day. The actor will now be produced sooner than the jurisdictional magistrate.

The actor changed into as soon as arrested in connection with a tweet he made remaining Wednesday (February 16) regarding the ongoing topic in Karnataka High Court docket which is hearing petitions on the hijab row.

Tagging an used tweet Ahimsa made on June 27, 2020, he wrote, “That is a tweet I wrote almost two years ago regarding a Karnataka High Court docket option”

“Justice Krishna Dixit made such stressful feedback in a rape case,” the actor’s tweet persisted, “Now this identical judge is determining whether #hijabs are acceptable or now not in govt schools. Does he have the readability required?”

That is a tweet I wrote almost two years ago regarding a Karnataka High Court docket option

Justice Krishna Dixit made such stressful feedback in a rape case

Now this identical judge is determining whether #hijabs are acceptable or now not in govt schools

Does he have the readability required? pic.twitter.com/Vg8VRXmJTW
— Chetan Kumar Ahimsa / (@ChetanAhimsa) February 16, 2022

Essentially essentially based totally on the tweet, a suo moto FIR changed into as soon as registered this present day at the Sheshadripuram PS as Cr. No. 40/2022 u/s 505(2) & 504 IPC.

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