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This is an archive article published on November 29, 2008

Man behind anti-Modi SMSes gets bail

The Gujarat High Court on Friday granted bail to Vishwa Hindu Parishad VHP leader Ashwin Patel, almost a month after he was arrested by the Gandhinagar police for circulating 8220;defamatory SMSes8221; against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his government.

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Judge criticises police for showing undue zeal in slapping sedition charges

The Gujarat High Court on Friday granted bail to Vishwa Hindu Parishad VHP leader Ashwin Patel, almost a month after he was arrested by the Gandhinagar police for circulating 8220;defamatory SMSes8221; against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his government.

As the parties did not press for a written order, Justice Z K Saiyad, in whose court the plea was heard, gave an oral order and granted bail to Patel on a surety of Rs 10,000.

Justice Saiyed, however, criticised the police for showing undue zeal in applying sedition charges against Patel.

During the course of the hearing, Justice Saiyed asked the police

officers: 8220;Have you read the section that describes sedition?8221;

At another point he told the police: 8220;If these SMSes amount to sedition, then anything the electronic and print media says against the government, is also sedition. By this measure, even they should be put behind bars.8221;

Patel, the city general secretary of the VHP, was arrested on October 27, for allegedly sending a stream of more than 4,000 SMSes, accusing Modi and his government of going soft on terrorism and diverting from the core values of Hindutva.

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The SMSes were sent to other VHP members, as well as to media persons. Besides sedition, Patel has been booked under a host of other provisions of the Indian Penal Code IPC that includes forgery, inciting communal violence and disrespect to religion.

Patel has been associated with the VHP for the last 15 years. His earlier bail plea before the Gandhinagar Sessions Court was rejected on November 12 on the ground that the investigation in the case was still on.

Text messages that rubbed salt into Modi8217;s wounds

Prabhu Chawla, Narendra Modi maate saaru public relation nu kaam kare chhe. Chaplusi chalugiri jeva shabdo jena aage fika padshe. Te sidhi Baat nathi parantu malai marva jevi vaat chhe. Aajtak etle Advanithi Modi sudhi Prabhu Chawla does great public relations work for Narendra Modi. Flattery and appeasement also pale in comparison to that. This is not 8216;Sidhi Baat8217; 8212; the name of Prabhu Chawla8217;s talk show 8212; but it is buttering. Aaj Tak means from Advani to Modi.

Mumbai police Malegaon ane Gujarat blast maate Gujarat na Surat maathi paanch hinduo ne pakdaya. Shu Gujarat na mukhayamantri Narendra Modi na sahyog vina aa thai shake?? The Mumbai police arrested five from Surat for the Malegaon and Gujarat blasts. Is this possible without the co-operation of Chief Minister Narendra Modi??

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Antakwadiyo ne maari ne Gujaratne salamat rakhwawala Vanzara ne jail ma mokalnar Modi aaj rate aath vage aaj tak upar bolshe ki mane antakwaadiyothi pyaar nathi. Je pm thava maate jhooth bole chhe. Modi, who sent Vanzara, the man who killed terrorists and made Gujarat a safe place, to jail, will at 8 pm tonight say on Aaj Tak, that he doesn8217;t love terrorists. He is speaking lies to become a Prime Minister.

Modi e Dilli na bomb kand pacchi jhadap thi publicity medvi chhe 8212; Rajnath kya chhe, Bhajpa na mukhiya kaun chhe? Modi chhe ke Rajnath chhe?? Ane Bhajpa sha maate publicity ni ghelchha ma rachnar Modi ne tena gaja karta vadhare mahatva aape chhe. Modi gained quick publicity after the Delhi bomb blasts. Where is Rajnath? Who is the BJP chief? Why does the BJP give more than due importance to Modi, who is enamoured with his own publicity??

Modi ane Shivraj Patil bane kahe chhe ke thanara bamb blast vishe teo janta hata- tyare banne jana gunahit bedarkari ane nishkalji maate jawabdar chhe jeni viruddh sahapraddh manushya vadh ni karyavahi thavi joiye IB, RAW, Intellingnce temne dar mahine jaankari aapta hata?? Modi and Shivraj Patil, both say that they knew in advance about the bomb blasts. In that case they are both responsible for criminal negligence and action should be taken against them for the deaths of innocents. Does RAW, IB and Intelligence give them information every month??

 

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