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Manipur Violence: Hyderabad University Professor Receives Court Summons After Interview With News Portal

The court of chief judicial magistrate Imphal East issued a summons to the professor on July 6,바카라 웹사이트accusing him바카라 웹사이트of defaming the Meitei community during an interview with a news portal

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After a바카라 웹사이트Hyderabad University professor and academic, Kham Khan Suan Hausing gave an interview to a news portal, an Imphal court initiated criminal proceedings against him for allegedly flaring "communal tensions".바카라 웹사이트The Supreme Court agreed to hear the professor's plea바카라 웹사이트to quash the summons issued on July 31.

The court of chief judicial magistrate Imphal East issued a summons to the professor on July 6,바카라 웹사이트accusing him바카라 웹사이트of "defaming the Metei community during an interview with journalist Karan Thapar on 'The Wire,'" according to a report by LiveLaw. He is facing charges under Sections 153A (promoting enmity on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, or language), 200 (knowingly declaring somethhing false), 295(A) (deliberate acts to outrage religious feeling), 298 (verbally outraging religious feelings), 505(1), and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code, according to the report.

In바카라 웹사이트his interview to the news portal on June 17, the professor told Karan Thapar that in order to resolve the deep-seated issues underlying the persisting violence in the state, Manipur Chief Minister N바카라 웹사이트Biren Singh must resign from office and a separate administration must be created for the minority Kuki community.

The charges against him were filed by바카라 웹사이트Manihar Moirangthem Singh, a member of the Meitei Tribe Union, who alleged that the professor made false statements to defame the Meitei community.바카라 웹사이트

In a tweet put on July 7, the professor said, "If a majoritarian state and its regime chose to use its coercive monopoly of power to silence truth and violate human rights with impunity, we have to remain united, reclaim and fight for these."

While the hearing was originally slated for today,바카라 웹사이트due to the Chief Justice's absence, the hearing could not take place as planned.바카라 웹사이트

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