Kerala blasts: Union MoS Chandrasekhar booked for alleged controversial remarks

A case has been registered against Union Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar for allegedly making statements that promote enmity between different groups police said on TuesdayThe Kerala police registered the FIR on its own in connection with the ministers recent statements on social media regarding the Kochi blasts and a Hamas leaders virtual address at an event organised by an Islamist group in Malappuram district of the state recentlyA senior officer of Kochi city police said that an FIR under sections 153A promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion race place of birth residence of the IPC and section 120 o causing nuisance and violation of public order of the Kerala Police Act has been registered against the ministerAfter reports of the bomb blasts at a religious gathering of Jehovahs Witnesses in Kalamassery near here came out on Sunday Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Chandrasekhar put up posts on social media platform X criticising Kerala CM Pinarayi VijayanDirty shameless appeasement politics by a discredited CM and HM pinarayivijayan besieged by corruption charges Sitting in Delhi and protesting against Israel when in Kerala open calls by Terrorist Hamas for Jihad is causing attacks and bomb blasts on innocent Christians he had saidFollowing this a verbal duel took place on Monday between the CM and Chandrasekhar with the BJP leader calling Vijayan a liar and he in turn lashing out and terming the MoS extremely venomousAlso read Kerala blast Man surrenders before police claims responsibility for explosionsThe CM also said that if anyone makes statements which are in violation of the law irrespective of whether they are central or state ministers cases would be registered against themThe blasts were set off at a convention centre in Kalamassery near Kochi where a prayer meeting of the Jehovahs Witnesses a Christian religious group that originated in the US in the 19th century was held on SundayA few hours after that Martin who claimed to be an estranged member of Jehovahs Witnesses surrendered before police in Thrissur district of the state saying that he carried out the multiple blastsInitially one woman had died and 60 were injured six of them critically in the blastsSubsequently one of the six critically wounded a 53yearold woman succumbed to her injuriesBy Monday morning the death toll rose to three with the death of a 12yearold girl who had suffered 95 per cent burns in the incidentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever