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The Delhi constabulary connected Thursday registered an FIR against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj, Sanjeev Jha, and Adil Ahmad Khan connected charges of hurting spiritual sentiments with a Santa Claus skit staged to item aerial pollution, said an officer.
The lawsuit was registered nether Section 299 (insulting religion oregon beliefs by words, signs, ocular representations, oregon physics means), and 302 (3) (deliberate intent to coiled spiritual feelings of immoderate person) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
The complainant, advocator Khushboo George, said the actions of the 3 leaders person “deeply wounded the spiritual sentiments” of the Christian assemblage and “threaten communal harmony” successful Delhi.
“Individuals dressed arsenic Santa Claus, a revered spiritual and taste icon for Christians worldwide, are portrayed successful a derogatory and mocking manner,” Ms. George wrote successful her complaint.
On December 17, the AAP leaders shared a satirical video connected their authoritative societal media accounts, featuring Santa Claus fainting successful Connaught Place owed to aerial pollution.
The complainant argued that the AAP leaders reduced spiritual icons to “mere props for their governmental messaging”.
Responding to the allegations, Mr. Bharadwaj, successful a station connected X, said, “When Santa Clauses successful Lajpat Nagar were threatened and chased distant with abuses, past nary BJP Christian worker’s spiritual sentiments were hurt. Those whose spiritual sentiments are wounded are the ones whose pictures are each implicit with BJP leaders.”
