The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Jitendra Tyagi, one of the accused persons in the Haridwar hate speech case, NDTV reported. A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and BV Nagarathna barred him from addressing the electronic media as one of the bail conditions, according to Live Law.
The former Shia Waqf Board chief had converted to Hinduism in December and changed his name from Wasim Rizvi.
He had previously been granted bail for three months on medical grounds in May. In August, he had approached the court for an extension in bail, but was told to surrender before September 5.
Tyagi was arrested in January for calling upon Hindus to buy weapons to commit genocide against Muslims. He made the statement while speaking at a “dharam sansad”, or religious conclave, held in Haridwar between December 17 and December 19.
At the Haridwar event, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, the head priest of Ghaziabad’s Dasna Devi temple, had called upon Hindus to pick up weapons, saying that mere “economic boycott” of Muslims will not work. He was arrested and was later granted bail in this case on February 7.
On September 2, a bench comprising Chief Justice UU Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat had also refused to entertain a public interest litigation seeking Narsinghanand and Tyagi’s arrest.
The petition was filed by the Indian Muslim…
