Akbaruddin gets acquittal in hate speech cases

Hyderabad: In a major relief to AIMIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, the special sessions court for trial of MPs/MLAs here on Wednesday acquitted him in the two hate speech cases booked against him. Owaisi was earlier arrested in connection with cases registered against him for his alleged hate speeches delivered at Nizamabad and Nirmal in […]

Hyderabad: In a major relief to AIMIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, the special sessions court for trial of MPs/MLAs here on Wednesday acquitted him in the two hate speech cases booked against him.

Owaisi was earlier arrested in connection with cases registered against him for his alleged hate speeches delivered at Nizamabad and Nirmal in December 2012 and subsequently released on bail. He was in the jail for 40 days.

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The Crime Investigation Department (CID) probed the Nizamabad case and filed the charge-sheet in 2016 while the Nirmal district police, who probed the case, also submitted the charge-sheet in the same year.

As many as 41 witnesses were examined in the Nizamabad case while 33 people were examined in the Nirmal case.

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