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Case against Modi, Shah, RSS chief over 'religious colour' to yoga
Patna, June 20
A case was filed on Saturday
against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and RSS
chief Mohan Bhagwat in a court in the Bihar capital for giving a
"religious colour" to yoga, thereby hurting people's sentiments.
"We
have filed a case against Modi, Shah and Bhagwat in the chief judicial
magistrate's court in Patna for defaming yoga by giving it religious
colour that has hurt the sentiments of people," said Shruti Singh, the
lawyer of petitioner social activist Dev Kumar Singh.
The case
was filed on charges of committing deliberate and malicious acts
intended to outrage religious feelings, and criminal conspiracy, the
lawyer said.
The petitioner prayed to the court to order the filing of a first information report (FIR) against the three leaders.
The court will hear the case on June 22.