Thane: Thee Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has issued notice to four people including former Maharashtra Cabinet minister and NCP leader Jitendra AwadiIn a criminal case of continuous assault on Twitter post of a civil engineer in Thane city.
The commission, in its notice, fixed September 08, 2022, as the next date of hearing in the matter and sought response from Awadh and the three policemen against whom the civil engineer, the victim Anand Karmuse, has filed a complaint, said advocate Aditya Mishra, of Karmuse. Advocate.
It was on April 5, 2020, 40-year-old complainant Anant Karmuse uploaded a picture allegedly mocking Awadh and posted it on social media which angered him. According to Karmuse’s complaint, three men who identified themselves as police took them to Awhad’s house, where they were later allegedly attacked with kicks, punches, batons, police batons etc. in the presence of these policemen. to be done.
Later, Awadh, three policemen and some NCP functionaries were arrested and granted bail. But Karmuse moved the MHRC complaining of human rights violations, Mishra said.
In its notice, the MHRC stated at one place, “I do not need to go into factual background at this stage as I am satisfied with the material on record that the right to honor and dignity of the victim has been openly violated because He dared to electronically condemn the comments or opinions of sitting MLA from Mumbra-Kalwa constituency of Thane district, Jitendra Awhad, who took to Twitter to criticize the Prime Minister’s initiative to instil confidence, moral courage in the hearts of citizens. To meet the challenges of the deadly pandemic ‘Covid-19’ in 2019/2020, which brought the entire country under lockdown.”
The commission, in its notice, fixed September 08, 2022, as the next date of hearing in the matter and sought response from Awadh and the three policemen against whom the civil engineer, the victim Anand Karmuse, has filed a complaint, said advocate Aditya Mishra, of Karmuse. Advocate.
It was on April 5, 2020, 40-year-old complainant Anant Karmuse uploaded a picture allegedly mocking Awadh and posted it on social media which angered him. According to Karmuse’s complaint, three men who identified themselves as police took them to Awhad’s house, where they were later allegedly attacked with kicks, punches, batons, police batons etc. in the presence of these policemen. to be done.
Later, Awadh, three policemen and some NCP functionaries were arrested and granted bail. But Karmuse moved the MHRC complaining of human rights violations, Mishra said.
In its notice, the MHRC stated at one place, “I do not need to go into factual background at this stage as I am satisfied with the material on record that the right to honor and dignity of the victim has been openly violated because He dared to electronically condemn the comments or opinions of sitting MLA from Mumbra-Kalwa constituency of Thane district, Jitendra Awhad, who took to Twitter to criticize the Prime Minister’s initiative to instil confidence, moral courage in the hearts of citizens. To meet the challenges of the deadly pandemic ‘Covid-19’ in 2019/2020, which brought the entire country under lockdown.”