New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a man’s petition seeking to quash an FIR against him for allegedly sending inflammatory WhatsApp messages that suggested his brother’s arrest under the anti-conversion law in Bijnor was religiously motivated.

A bench of justices Pramod Kumar Srivastava and J.J. Munir denied the relief to Afaq, noting that his posts or WhatsApp messages may not have been about religion per se , but “they definitely conveyed an underlying and subtle message” that his brother had been targeted in a false case because he belonged to a certain religious community.

A police sub-inspector had filed the criminal case against Afaq under various sections, including those related to outraging religious feelings of a class of persons with deliberate, maliciou

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