{"id":17784,"date":"2022-08-23T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=17784"},"modified":"2022-08-23T10:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:48:19","slug":"indian-politician-from-modis-party-detained-after-holy-prophet-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=17784&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Indian politician from Modi&#8217;s party detained after Holy Prophet remark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Indian police charge&nbsp;Singh for&nbsp;&#8220;promoting enmity&#8221;.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>&#8220;We have detained him and we will arrest him,&#8221; police say.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Hundreds of Muslims have protested against Singh.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-cnvs-separator-id-1661251596953\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>MUMBAI: Indian police detained a state lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s party on Tuesday on suspicion of &#8220;promoting enmity in the name of religion&#8221; after Muslim groups demanded his arrest for his comments about the Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The detention of T Raja Singh, a lawmaker in the southern state of Telangana, comes months after his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suspended a spokesperson for her remarks on the Holy Prophet (PBUH) that had led to a diplomatic backlash against India.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He has been charged with promoting enmity in the name of religion,&#8221; Joel Davis, a senior police official in Hyderabad city, told\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have detained him and we will arrest him. This about the recent video that he posted.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video, available on social media, Singh, and in an apparent reference to the Holy Prophet (PBUH), said an elderly man had married a girl decades his junior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singh could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hindu nationalist BJP would examine Singh&#8217;s remarks and take action if he was found to have violated its code, party spokesperson K Krishna Rao told the News18 channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of Muslims protested against Singh on Monday evening after the video appeared on social media, footage from media showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News Indian police charge&nbsp;Singh for&nbsp;&#8220;promoting enmity&#8221;. &#8220;We have detained him and we will arrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,71,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-important-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-world","10":"cs-entry","11":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17788,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions\/17788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}