Akbaruddin Owaisi.

HYDERABAD: Even as controversial AIMIM legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi is booked for an alleged hate speech in Karimnagar on July 23, TOI has for the first time got details of the chargesheet filed against him in 2016. According to the document, a copy of which is with TOI, Central Forensic Science Laboratory ( CFSL ), Chandigarh, has confirmed that it was Akbar who had made the controversial speeches in late 2012 and early 2013 leading to protests across Hyderabad.

The CFSL report states: "The recorded speech and samples of the speakers at the meeting revealed that voice exhibits of a particular speaker are similar in respect of their acoustic, linguistic and phonetic features. The voice samples of the speaker are the voice of Akbaruddin Owaisi with high probability."

Trial in the case is yet to begin in the special court for MLAs and MPs cases, Nampally.

Immediately after AIMIM parted ways with the Congress in 2012, both Akbaruddin and his elder brother, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi had addressed public meetings in different parts of what was then united Andhra Pradesh. They spit fire on Congress in their speeches and also attacked the then Congress chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy alleging that the latter was blatantly communal.

The first case of hate speech against Akbaruddin was registered on January 2, 2013, following which a number of petitions were filed against him. He was arrested on January 8.

The chargesheet was filed three years later - in 2016 - after the high court intervened. The contents of the sensational case had, however, never come to light as CID officials kept it under wraps.

The first hate speech case against Akbaruddin was registered on January 2, 2013, following which a number of petitions were filed against him. The Majlis legislator was arrested on January 8. Following the arrest, MIM parted ways with Congress in 2012, both Akbaruddin and his elder brother, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi had addressed public meetings in different parts of what was then united Andhra Pradesh. They spit fire on Congress in their speeches and also attacked the then Congress chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy alleging that the latter was blatantly communal.

The first case of hate speech against Akbaruddin was registered on January 2, 2013, following which a number of petitions were filed against him. He was arrested on January 8.

The chargesheet was filed three years later — in 2016 — after the high court intervened. The contents of the sensational case had, however, never come to light as CID officials kept it under wraps.

Journalists also declared witnesses

Apart from making those who supplied tents, chairs and mikes at the AIMIM meetings as witnesses, investigators also included 4TV managing director Jafar Bin Abdulla Balala, Ruby Digi TV MD Panvaz Ahmed, Urdu TV channel MD Mohammed Habeebuddin and some AIMIM activists among 67 witnesses. Some of the journalists and cameramen who covered the event were also declared witnesses.

On the plea of Akbaruddin, cases registered in Nizamabad II Town and OU police stations were clubbed in July 2013. CID, which was dragging its feet, filed the chargesheet three years later after a case was filed in the high court citing inaction on the part of the Telangana government to launch prosecution against the Majlis MLA.

Once the government gave its consent, CID filed an investigation report in the Nampally special court in April 2016. Though the case was transferred to the special court and a few witnesses had been examined. Trial is yet to commence.

Akbaruddin was booked under sections 153-A (promotes or attempts to promote on grounds of religion, race, place), 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), 298 (deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any person), 188 and 506 of the IPC.

