Haridwara : Uttarakhand Police has registered a case against Jitendra Narayan Tyagi, formerly known as Wasim Rizvi, for making objectionable and inflammatory statements against Islam during the ‘Dharam Sansad’, a religious assembly held in Haridwar.

The religious assembly, being referred to as Haridwar “Hate Assembly”, sparked a row after videos of Hindu leaders making provocative speeches and inciting violence against minority communities surfaced on social media.

Jitendra Narayan Tyagi who got converted into Hindu from Muslim has been accused of deliberately hurting the religious sentiments of crores of people who believe in Islam. Tyagi alias Rizvi was the chief of Uttar Pradesh Wakf Board.

Following this, an FIR was lodged by Gulbahar Khan against Jitendra Narayan Tyagi at Haridwar Kotwali. The Uttarakhand Police tweeted (in Hindi), “Taking cognizance of the video that is going viral on social media for spreading hatred by giving provocative speeches against a particular religion, a case has been registered against Wasim Rizvi alias Jitendra Narayan Tyagi and others under Section 153A IPC in Kotwali Haridwar and legal proceedings are in progress.”

The three-day assembly was held from December 17 to December 19. It was organised by Yati Narsinghanand, a controversial Hindutva figure known to make communal statements.

RTI activist and Trinamool leader Saket Gokhale has filed a complaint with the SHO of Jawalapur police station against the organisers and the speakers of the religious gathering.