Woman detained in Bengaluru for holding ''Kashmir Mukti, Dalit
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A day after pro-Pakistan slogans were raised by an agitator at an anti-CAA event here, a young
woman was 'detained' on Friday for holding a "Kashmir Mukti (liberation), Dalit Mukti, Muslim Mukti" placard at a counter
protest in the city, police said. Holding the placard with the slogans, she was spotted
sitting among the participants of the protest organised by the Hindu Jagaran Vedike against the woman who had shouted
"Pakistan Zindabad" on Thursday. City police chief Bhaskar Rao said she was escorted out
of the place as the Vedike members asked her to leave and crowd started gathering.
"She has been now been taken into custody for her own safety along with the placard... we will find out her
background, where she has come from and who are behind her among other things," Rao told reporters, adding she did not
raise any slogan. The "Kashmir Mukti (liberation), Dalit Mukti, Muslim
Mukti" slogans were written in both Kannada and English in the placard held by her.
To a question if she would be arrested, the Commissioner said let the investigation be held. "It is too early as she
has just been taken into custody," he added. Last evening, Amulya Leona had raised "Pakistan Zindabad"
slogan thrice in the presence of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi after the organisers
of the event under the banner of "Save Constitution" invited her to address the gathering, prompting him to denounce her
act. After being removed from the stage, she was later
arrested on charges of sedition and produced before a magistrate court which remanded her to 14 days judicial
custody. An upset Owaisi had said he would not have participated
in the protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act had he known that the woman had been invited for the event and
asserted his party had no links with her.
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