“Gujarat ATS to investigate terror angle in Mufti Salman Azhari provocative speech case, funding sources to be looked into too”, Opindia, February 8, 2024:
“In a major development in the Mufti Salman Azhari hate speech case, it has been reported that Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) will investigate a terror angle in the event.
Speaking to IndiaTV, Gujrat ATS SP Om Prakash Jat said that the event in a school compound in Junagadh on 31st January was organised as an ‘anti-drug awareness’ program. “This event was presented as an ‘anti-drugs awareness’ program, however, Maulana Salman Azhari in a planned manner delivered an inflammatory speech with the purpose of inciting communal hatred between two religious communities. Not only in Junagadh, but he (Azhari) also gave a similar provocative speech in the Samiyakhali police station area in Kutch,” Jat said.
The Gujarat ATS SP further informed that accused Mufti Azhari has a controversial history adding that multiple cases are lodged against him in various states. “In Karnataka, there are five FIRs against him and in Maharashtra as well…nearly double in Gujarat…..”
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