Chennai/Bengaluru : As issued death threats to Karnataka High Court John dges who served verdict on wearing Hijab in Classrooms, the Tamil Nadu police arrested two men on Saturday.
Kovai Rahmathullah was arrested in Tirunelveli, while S Jamal Mohammed Usmani, 44, was taken into custody in Thanjavur.
A three-judge bench of Karnataka HC had held in its verdict that hijab is not an essential practice of Islam.
Several minority community outfits have been protesting across TN against the judgment. A video clip of one such protest meeting in Madurai on Thursday went viral on social media two days later.
Tamil Nadu Tawheed Jamath (TNTJ) auditing committee member Kovai Rahmathullah purportedly saying that a judge who gave a ‘wrong’ verdict was killed during his morning walk in Jharkhand. Judge
Uttam Anand was run over by an autorickshaw last August. “There are some emotional people in our community. If something happens to them (judges), BJP is waiting for an opportunity to blame us,” he said.
Police registered cases against two more people, TNTJ Madurai district president Habibullah and vice president Asan Badshah, who had organised the meeting. In Thanjavur, police arrested TNTJ headquarters speaker S Jamal Mohammed Usmani on Friday and booked the outfit’s Thanjavur district leader Rajik Mohammed for making derogatory remarks against Karnataka HC judges, PM Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah and UP CM
Yogi Adhityanath.
In Bengaluru, police on Saturday began an investigation into threats issued to the judges, including the chief justice, by some groups in Tamil Nadu. Bengaluru police registered an FIR based on a complaint filed by advocate Sudha Katwa.
