New Delhi: There is more trouble for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi.
After an FIR was filed on Tuesday against Varun for allegedly making a hate speech targeting Muslims during an election rally on March 6, two more cases have been registered against him. The two cases were filed on Thursday.
Varun has already applied for anticipatory bail after the Election Commission ordered the registration of a criminal case against him.
Meanwhile, Varun must reply to the show-cause notice issued to him by the three-member Election Commission by 1100 hrs IST on March 20.
The EC has also sought forensic analysis of the tapes of Varun's speech and has also ordered video tracking of all rallies and functions attended by him.
The BJP has already distanced itself from Varun’s speech.
Party sources have told CNN-IBN that his remarks do not carry the party's official approval because at the time of making them he was still not allotted the party symbol.
Varun had on Wednesday issued a clarification saying the CD of his speech had been tampered with and that the voice being heard is not his. He said that he was only speaking in favour of Hindus and that is why some political parties were targeting him.
But former attorney general Soli Sorabjee clarified that the speaker's intention does not matter and the law would take its own course in the case.
"If he did make that speech the law says intention does not matter. It's like a man saying, "Oh! I didn’t intend to create communal disharmony". The fact is if your words have inevitable effect of creating ill feelings between two communities you have committed the offence. Intention is no answer," Sorabjee said.
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