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Punjab Congress main Amrinder Singh Raja Warring has been booked for making "derogatory and casteist" remarks against precocious Buta Singh, a erstwhile Union Home Minister.
The Ludhiana MP has been booked nether the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Section 196 (promoting enmity based connected religion, race) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, according to an FIR registered connected Tuesday.
The lawsuit was registered pursuing a ailment by Buta Singh's son, Sarabjot Singh Sidhu, astatine the Cyber Crime Police Station successful Kapurthala district.
Sarabjot Singh had approached Kapurthala Senior Superintendent of Police against Warring implicit the alleged remarks.
Mr. Warring has been nether occurrence from leaders of the rival governmental parties for his "casteist" remarks against Buta Singh, which helium made portion campaigning for the Congress campaigner for the November 11 Tarn Taran Assembly Bypoll.
Mr. Warring, the Punjab Congress chief, connected Monday tendered an "unconditional apology" and said that Buta Singh, a seasoned person of his party, was similar a begetter fig to him.
In his complaint, Sarabjot Singh termed his comments "deeply violative and casteist." He alleged that Mr. Warring's connection was not lone factually incorrect and racially charged, but it besides constituted a nonstop insult to a person revered by the Scheduled Caste community, and who belonged to the Mazhabi Sikh community.
"The usage of the word 'Black Sikh' was utilized deliberately by the offender successful a derogatory discourse to wounded the sentiments of the complainant, his household and the community. The connection 'rang kala' was intentionally utilized by the offender to wounded the sentiments of the complainant and his family. Not lone this, but it is defamatory and abusive to the 'Mazhabi Sikhs' by pointing 'kala rang'," helium wrote successful his complaint.
Sarabjot Singh said the usage of the connection 'Kala Mazhabi Sikh' amounts to hitting the property of the idiosyncratic and is against the Constitution of India.
"It intelligibly amounts to 'body shaming,'" helium said.
"The words 'Black Sikh' reenforce the historically entrenched ideas similar the superiority of the precocious castes implicit the little castes/untouchables," helium said successful his complaint.
The comments person a "potential to incite caste-based tensions and disrupt communal harmony successful the state. They dishonour the bequest of a nationalist person who served the state with distinction," Buta Singh's lad said.
