Third ‘hate speech’ case filed against Mufti Salman Azhari in Gujarat

Mumbai-based Islamic preacher Mufti Salman Azhari was on Friday booked in a third case for alleged hate speech by police in Modasa in Gujarat’s Arvalli district, an official said.

He delivered an inflammatory speech in an open ground in Modasa on December 24, Superintendent of Police Shefali Barwal



said.

Azhari was held from Mumbai on February 5 after he delivered an alleged hate speech in B division police station limits in Junagadh on January 31. Later, Kutch East police registered a First Information Report and arrested him on February 8 for delivering an allegedly provocative speech in Samakhiyari village in Bhachau taluka on January 31.