BJP district chief in Tamil Nadu arrested for provocative speech
Chennai
03-December-2021

PHOTO: IANS
The district President of the BJP in Tamil Nadu's Ariyallur was arrested and sent to judicial custody on Friday following the provocative speech he has made on December 1 in front of the District Collectors' office.
He was charged with Section 504 of IPC that includes intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace. This section states that whoever intentionally insults and thereby giving provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any other offense shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both.
The other sections that are charged against the BJP leader are Sections 153(2), 153 A(1)(b), 153 B (1) (c), 505 (1) (b), 505 (2), 506(2) AND 506(II) of IPC.
Ayyappan was produced before the Ariyallur magistrate court and it sent him to judicial custody for 15 days and he is lodged now in Tiruchi prison.-IANS
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