The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notices to the Central and city governments and the Delhi police on a petition seeking a ban on a website for allegedly propagating communalism and calling for converting India into an Islamic state.
Directing that the matter should be “seriously looked into”, a bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked the Delhi police chief to treat the contents of the plea to the court as a complaint and verify the website www.shariah4hind.com [1] and file his report within a week.
In the petition, filed through advocate Vikas Padora, Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, president of an organisation called Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena, alleged that the website violates the principle of secularism as enshrined in the Indian Constitution.
According to the petition, two USA-based persons, named Anjem Choudhary and Omar Muhammed Bakri, have recently launched the organisation Shariah for India and also launched the website www.shariah4hind.com [1] with an object to campaign for enforcement of Shariat law all over India.
The plea said the website’s objectives, if met, would result into communal disharmony.
The plea also sought an order to restrain the group from holding a rally and conference on March 2 and 3 in the city.
“The extreme Islamic groups are planning to organise a huge rally in Delhi to propagate Islamisation of the Indian subcontinent and enforce Shariat law all over India and hence this may result into communal clashes and disruption of public peace and order in Delhi and other parts of India,” advocate Vikas Padora pleaded in the court.
The counsel submitted that the court should pass an order directing the Union and the Delhi governments to include the “Shariat for Hind” in the list of banned organisations, as the group works against the integrity and sovereignty of India.
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[1] http://www.shariah4hind.com