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Quaid Najmi

4 January 2025 at 3:26:24 pm

YouTuber challenges FIR, LoC in HC

Mumbai : The Bombay High Court issued notice to the state government on a petition filed by UK-based medico and YouTuber, Dr. Sangram Patil, seeking to quash a Mumbai Police FIR and revoking a Look Out Circular in a criminal case lodged against him, on Thursday.   Justice Ashwin D. Bhobe, who heard the matter with preliminary submissions from both sides, sought a response from the state government and posted the matter for Feb. 4.   Maharashtra Advocate-General Milind Sathe informed the court...

YouTuber challenges FIR, LoC in HC

Mumbai : The Bombay High Court issued notice to the state government on a petition filed by UK-based medico and YouTuber, Dr. Sangram Patil, seeking to quash a Mumbai Police FIR and revoking a Look Out Circular in a criminal case lodged against him, on Thursday.   Justice Ashwin D. Bhobe, who heard the matter with preliminary submissions from both sides, sought a response from the state government and posted the matter for Feb. 4.   Maharashtra Advocate-General Milind Sathe informed the court that the state would file its reply within a week in the matter.   Indian-origin Dr. Patil, hailing from Jalgaon, is facing a criminal case here for posting allegedly objectionable content involving Bharatiya Janata Party leaders on social media.   After his posts on a FB page, ‘Shehar Vikas Aghadi’, a Mumbai BJP media cell functionary lodged a criminal complaint following which the NM Joshi Marg Police registered a FIR (Dec. 18, 2025) and subsequently issued a LoC against Dr. Patil, restricting his travels.   The complainant Nikhil Bhamre filed the complaint in December 2025, contending that Dr. Patil on Dec. 14 posted offensive content intended to spread ‘disinformation and falsehoods’ about the BJP and its leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.   Among others, the police invoked BNSS Sec. 353(2) that attracts a 3-year jail term for publishing or circulating statements or rumours through electronic media with intent to promote enmity or hatred between communities.   Based on the FIR, Dr. Patil was detained and questioned for 15 hours when he arrived with his wife from London at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (Jan. 10), and again prevented from returning to Manchester, UK on Jan. 19 in view of the ongoing investigations.   On Wednesday (Jan. 21) Dr. Patil recorded his statement before the Mumbai Police and now he has moved the high court. Besides seeking quashing of the FIR and the LoC, he has sought removal of his name from the database imposing restrictions on his international travels.   Through his Senior Advocate Sudeep Pasbola, the medico has sought interim relief in the form of a stay on further probe by Crime Branch-III and coercive action, restraint on filing any charge-sheet during the pendency of the petition and permission to go back to the UK.   Pasbola submitted to the court that Dr. Patil had voluntarily travelled from the UK to India and was unaware of the FIR when he landed here. Sathe argued that Patil had appeared in connection with other posts and was not fully cooperating with the investigators.

Rahul’s caste plan amid allegations of discrimination

The LoP claims that Indian nationalism is in danger because certain castes do not have adequate representation in judiciary, bureaucracy, media and corporates

Rahul Gandhi

Mumbai: The Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday demonstrated in Nagpur that he could not get rid of the caste system that is cemented in his head. Gandhi was in Nagpur for a ‘Samvidhan Samman Sammelan’. He spent most of the time of his speech on accusing the society of allegedly depriving the so called lower castes from the benefits of development.


Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Jyotibha Phule, Gautam Buddha and Basavanna were the most repeated names in Gandhi’s speech. The event was held at Suresh Bhatt Hall in Reshimbag area, which is adjacent to Dr. Hedgewar Smruti Mandir, a memorial of RSS founder the late Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar.


Gandhi also addressed the country as Hindustan several times over in his 31-minute speech that also included his own fascination with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s books and the Indian Constitution. Gandhi claimed that he has read Dr. Ambedkar’s book ‘The Annihilation of Caste’. He also claimed the Constitution is more than a book but a modern version with a thousand-year-old thought behind it.


Gandhi’s speech appeared to be a hurriedly put together effort to remind the audience that Dalits, OBCs, and Other Backward Classes (OBC) continue to be ignored and rejected in new India and that he is their only saviour available at hand.


Gandhi stressed in his speech that lack of caste representation in media, judiciary and corporate sector is also a threat to Indian nationality. He claimed that caste census alone can give them proper representation in “Hindustan”. He also promised to work hard to break the 50 per cent cap on caste reservations.


Gandhi called himself an ‘amplifier’, responsible to bring forth the voices of the poor and backward people to the forefront and that he was very much enjoying his role at that.

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