Three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers have been arrested for shouting “goli maaro (shoot them)” slogans prior to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s rally in Kolkata on Sunday.
All the three have been arrested after police identified them from various video footages.
The arrested persons are Surendra Kumar Tiwari, Pankaj Prasad and Dhruba Basu, all residents of Kolkata. They have been booked under four sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) – 153A, 505, 506 and 34 – which includes promoting feeling of enmity among religions, inciting one community against another, criminal intimidation and act done by several persons with common intention. The first one is a non-bailable offence.
Police said that they are trying to identify other BJP workers who raised the slogan by interrogating the three.
On Sunday, some BJP workers were seen shouting “goli maaro” from a rally approaching the Shahid Minar from Jawaharlal Nehru Road in Kolkata, where Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke in a rally.
The goli maaro slogan is said to have fuelled the violence that erupted in Delhi last week, leading to horrific violence that killed over 40 persons and leaving over 200 injured. The slogan became the centre of controversy in the run-up to the Delhi state elections of early February, with Union minister of state Anurag Thakur attending a rally in which it was raised.
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