JNU student leader Umar Khalid (left) and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani. (Express Photos) JNU student leader Umar Khalid (left) and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani. (Express Photos)POLICE IN Maharashtra have registered a criminal case against Dalit leader and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and JNU student leader Umar Khalid, for “creating communal disharmony” through “provocative speeches”, and denied permission for an event in Mumbai where the two were scheduled to speak. Additional Commissioner of Police Ravindra Sengaonkar said: “In the speeches delivered on December 31, Mevani and Khalid had made some provocative statements. Asked whether Mevani and Khalid would be summoned, he said, “The allegations in the FIR will be investigated.

Source: Indian Express January 04, 2018 23:32 UTC