FIR filed against Kamal Nath for spreading misleading information over Covid-19

Bhopal, May 24: After his controversial remarks, an FIR has been registered against Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath for allegedly creating panic by his remarks about the coronavirus pandemic.

 

A controversy erupted after Kamal Nath had sparked controversy by repeatedly using the term “Indian Corona” to refer to the pandemic during a media interaction on Friday. He said that ‘while we were saying Chinese Corona, now we are facing Indian Corona. Today the UK has banned flights from India due to Indian Corona’.

 

 

This comes after a video of Kamal Nath’s comments had gone viral, BJP had slammed him, reminding that WHO has said that it does not associate variants of Coronavirus with any country. Earlier, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had issued a statement earlier this month that using the term “Indian variant” to refer to the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus is not correct, and had expressed concern over media reports using the term.

 

 

The complaint was lodged after BJP's representative committee submitted an application to register an FIR against the former Chief Minister. The FIR copy of the report stated that the case against him was registered by Yogita Satankar.

 

Nath, a former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, was charged under section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant) of the IPC and section 54 (making or circulating a false alarm or warning as to disaster or its severity or magnitude, leading to panic) of National Disaster Management Act 2005.

 

 

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan had also strongly reacted to Kamal Nath’s comments, wondering whether the comments amount to sedition. “Will this not hurt the country’s respect and does this not amount to sedition?” he had asked. The CM had said that he is deeply saddened that former Kamal Nath was destroying the morale of the country and the state.