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NBW issued against Uma Bharti

Vipula Pujari, Judicial Magistrate, First Class, passed the order on Thursday regarding the case relating to violence during an agitation for hoisting the national flag at the controversial Idgah Maidan on August 15, 1994.

The order said Bharti allegedly instigated the people to hoist the flag at the disputed ground.

It said summons and non-bailable warrants issued in the past had been returned to the court. Bharti is the first of 22 accused persons in the case.

The maidan was at the centre of a controversy then following persistent futile attempts by the Bharatiya Janata Party as part of its agitation to hoist the national flag but the issue was sorted out amicably a few years ago after a Muslim trust agreed to unfurl the flag itself.

The maidan was also in dispute with the city corporation claiming before a court that it belonged to the civic body and had been given on a token rent to enable Muslims to offer prayers.

PTI

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