NEW DELHI – Indian Congress leader and Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhuwas slapped with a sedition case on Monday by a lawyer in Bihar forinsulting the Indian Army after he hugged Pakistan’s army chief Qamar JavedBajwa at the swearing-in ceremony of Imran Khan as Pakistan’s primeminister.
Sudhir Kumar Ojha, known for indicting celebrities, alleged in his petitionfiled with Muzaffarpur’s chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Hari Prasad thatSidhu insulted the families of Indian soldiers killed by Pakistan’s armyand terrorists sponsored by the country by hugging General Bajwa andsitting next to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir’s president Masood Khan onSaturday.
Muzaffarpur town is around 100km from Bihar’s capital Patna.
Ojha said it was unbecoming of Sidhu to attend the celebrations in theneighbouring country at a time when the nation was mourning the death offormer prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Worse, he said, his actionsthere put India on a low beside causing insult to the brave Indian soldierslike Lance Naik Paramjeet Singh, whose body was mutilated by the Pakistanarmy in Kashmir last year.