18 February,2009 05:29 PM IST | | PTI
A local court on Wednesday directed the police to register an FIR against Union Minister for Women and Child Welfare Renuka Chowdhury for her reported remark that "Mangalore has been Talibanised" in the wake of the attack on women at a pub on January 24 by Sriram Sene activists.
Third Judicial Magistrate (First Class) directed the police to register the FIR under section 153 A (Promoting enmity between different groups) and B (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 505 (Statements conducive to public mischief) IPC and also to submit the investigation report before March 20, Padma Prasad Hegde, representing the BJP-led Mangalore corporation Mayor Ganesh Hosabettu and others.
The direction came following a criminal case filed by the the Mayor against Chowdhury for her remarks. Hegde contended that the accused (Minister) had "deliberately" uttered communally provocative sentences in order to incite violence.
