Source: hindustantimes.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior Communist Party of India (M) leader Sheikh Abdul Ghani was booked by the police in Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Gwalior on Wednesday for allegedly selling a book on the abrogation of Article 370 a day earlier, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 74-year-old Ghani, who is a retired employee of BSNL, was booked for promoting enmity between different groups under non-bailable section 153-A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He was detained on Tuesday evening but released later at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPolice got information on Tuesday evening that a person was selling a controversial book at Phoolbagh square and a heavy crowd had gathered in the area. A team from the Padaav police station reached there,\u201d Gwalior\u2019s superintendent of police, Navneet Bhasin, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPolice found that the book with contents that could promote enmity among people of different castes and religions was being sold by Sheikh Abdul Ghani,\u201d Bhasin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chief of CPI(M)\u2019s Madhya Pradesh unit Jaswinder Singh has written the book \u2018Dhara 370: Setu Ya Surang\u2019 and the protest during which it was being sold was organised by Muslim Adhikar Manch, according to police. They said the Manch was protesting to press its demand for cleaning Sagartal, a local water body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe book is being sold across the state and it has nothing objectionable in it. The police took action without even reading the contents of the book with a malafide intention,\u201d Jaswinder Singh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The media cell in-charge of the Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s Madhya Pradesh unit Lokendra Parashar had on Tuesday written on social media that an objectionable book was being sold during a protest at Phoolbagh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs per the information that we received, the book has objectionable contents against the merger of J-K (Jammu and Kashmir) with India and also against the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and others. Such literature can cause unrest in society,\u201d Parashar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Congress spokesperson JP Dhanopia said they were not aware of the development. \u201cWe will look into it,\u201d Dhanopia said.<\/p>\n