IANS
CHANDIGARH, FEBRUARY 24
Police on Wednesday registered a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy against Virender Singh, a close aide of former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, on charges of inciting violence during the Jat agitation, officials said.
A Khap leader, Man Singh Dalal, who represents the Dalal Khap in Haryana, was also named in the FIR registered at the Civil Lines police station in Rohtak town, 75 km from Delhi. Both have been booked for sedition, trying to incite violence and criminal conspiracy.
An audio tape of a telephone conversation, allegedly between Virender Singh and Dalal, surfaced recently in which Virender Singh is purportedly telling Dalal to activate youths in Sirsa district to take part in the Jat reservation agitation.
Virender Singh was the political advisor to Hooda for nearly 10 years (2005-14) when the latter was Haryana’s chief minister. The Congress, after the audio clip surfaced, issued a notice to Virender Singh seeking his explanation. The notice was issued by Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar.
Virender Singh has claimed the tape was “doctored” and demanded that the whole conversation be brought out in the public. It is not known who had ordered and taped the conversation illegally. Hooda, who was shooed away from Rohtak town by locals and traders and even shoes were hurled at him on Tuesday, has not said anything on the audio clip of his close aide.
