Kerala Police files FIR against Pala Bishop for promoting feelings of hatred, creating rift in the society

Kerala Police files FIR against Pala Bishop for promoting feelings of hatred, creating rift in the society

Wherever arms cannot be used, extremists are using such methods to destroy the state’s youth, he had said.

The Kerala Police filed an FIR against Catholic Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt after a Magistrate Court directed it to investigate and report on the basis of a complaint that the bishop through his love and narcotic jihad remarks had tried to create a rift in the society.

A senior police officer said that the Kuravilangad police registered the case against the Bishop of Pala diocese after the court considered a plea filed by a leader of All India Imams Council.

Abdul Aziz Maulavi, the Kottayam district president of the council, had filed a petition seeking to register a case and moved the court after the police refused to register the case against the Bishop on the basis of his complaint.

Christian girls falling prey to love and narcotic jihad in Kerala: Bishop

On September 9, the Bishop, at a function held in a church in Kuravilangad in Kottayam district, had said that Christian girls were falling prey to “love and narcotic jihad” in Kerala.

Wherever arms cannot be used, extremists are using such methods to destroy the state’s youth, he had said.

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Quoting former police chief Loknath Behra, the Bishop said that Kerala had become a recruitment hub for terrorist organisations and said that those, who try to establish that love and narcotic jihad does not exist in the state, were just shutting their eyes to reality.

BJP has backed Bishop over ‘Narco Jihad’ remark

Condemning his statement, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had said that the state government has no intention to initiate any legal proceedings against the Bishop for his controversial remarks.

Meanwhile, the BJP came out in support of the Bishop with its Kerala unit writing a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging the central government to protect him.

“The Bishop urged parents to be cautious and his statement is a reflection of the insecurity among Christians and Hindus,” the Kerala BJP unit said.

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