{"id":37155,"date":"2015-04-03T11:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T11:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=37155"},"modified":"2015-04-03T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T11:35:14","slug":"two-complaints-filed-against-giriraj-singh-by-congress-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/two-complaints-filed-against-giriraj-singh-by-congress-workers","title":{"rendered":"Two complaints filed against Giriraj Singh by Congress workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two complaints were filed against Union Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/Giriraj-Singh.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"273\" height=\"185\" data-attachment-id=\"37156\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/two-complaints-filed-against-giriraj-singh-by-congress-workers\/giriraj-singh\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/Giriraj-Singh.png?fit=273%2C185&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"273,185\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Giriraj Singh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/Giriraj-Singh.png?fit=273%2C185&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37156\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/Giriraj-Singh.png?resize=273%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Giriraj Singh\" \/><\/a>today by Congress workers separately at two places for his racist barb against Congress president Sonia Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p>One complaint was filed at Muzaffarpur while the other was submitted at Darbhanga.<\/p>\n<p>In Muzaffarpur, Sanjay Kumar Singh filed a complaint against Giriraj Singh in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Ved Prakash Singh, who transferred the case to the court of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Anju Singh.<\/p>\n<p>The SDJM directed Mithanpura police station to register a case against the minister on the basis of the complaint, Sumit Kumar, lawyer of the petitioner, said.<\/p>\n<p>The SDJM gave the order to Mithanpura police station under Section 166 of IPC (public servant disobeying law with intent to cause injury to any person).<\/p>\n<p>The complainant, a resident of Miscote colony of Muzaffarpur, said in the petition that after reading a news report about the racist remark about Sonia Gandhi, he was pained.<\/p>\n<p>The Union minister had asked the Congress on Tuesday at Hajipur whether the party would have accepted Sonia Gandhi&#8217;s leadership if she were not white-skinned.<\/p>\n<p>Singh had also mocked at Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s absence from the political scene and likened it to the &#8220;missing Malaysian airliner&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another complaint was filed at Darbhanga.<\/p>\n<p>District Congress Vice President Pawan Kumar Chaudhary filed the complaint in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Gyanendra Kumar Shrivastava against Singh.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint was filed under sections 153 B (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), 500 (punishment for defamation) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), complainant lawyer Birendra Kumar Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>The Darbhanga CJM transferred the matter for hearing to First Class Judicial Magistrate Vishal Kumar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two complaints were filed against Union Minister today by Congress workers separately at two places for his racist barb against Congress president Sonia Gandhi. 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