Yamuna poison row: FIR filed against Arvind Kejriwal, others in Haryana's Kurukshetra

Arvind Kejriwal

As Delhi goes to assembly polls in a few hours, an FIR was registered against former Delhi CM-AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and other unknown members of his party at Shahabad Police Station in Kurukshetra in Haryana under various sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

The FIR is in connection with his statements regarding the river Yamuna water and his allegations against the Haryana Government, as reported by news agency ANI.The case has been registered under sections including 192 (penalizes those who maliciously or wantonly provoke others with the intent to incite a riot), 196 (1) (promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion, race) and 299 (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

As per the FIR, the case has been registered against the former Delhi chief minister and other unknown members of the Aam Aadmi Party at Shahabad police station on a complaint filed by Kurukshetra resident and advocate Jagmohan Manchanda on Tuesday.

The complainant accused Kejriwal of making provocative statements and wild allegations against the state of Haryana including Haryana government and the BJP. Manchanda in his complaint alleged that Kejriwal, in conspiracy with other members of AAP, has given such provocative, false and misleading statements with "an ulterior motive and desperation to cause havoc and riots in Delhi and Haryana which would sway some votes towards him".

Kejriwal deliberately, intentionally and consciously has given this false statement, the complainant alleged. The case was registered following a complaint lodged by the complainant in a court of the sub-divisional judicial magistrate in Shahabad.

Arvind Kejriwal told reporters on January 27 that the "BJP government in Haryana has mixed poison in the water supplied to Delhi through the Yamuna. Thanks to DJB engineers, who caught it and stopped the water, it did not enter Delhi. If that water got mixed with drinking water, a mass genocide would have happened".

He had further accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of mixing "poison" in the water supplied to Delhi to trigger a chaos, so that the AAP could be blamed for people dying.

*With Agency Inputs