Owaisi reacts to scribes booked under BNS

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asauddin Owaisi on Sunday reiterated his opposition to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) after five  journalists were booked under the new criminal law for reporting a lynching incident from Uttar Pradesh.
It is to be noted that the incident took place a few days ago in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli. A Muslim vendor identified as Firoz Qureshi was lynched by a mob. The Shamli police booked the scribes under Sections 196 and 353 of the BNS 2023.
Reacting to the FIR, Owaisi took to X and said, “This is why I had opposed the new criminal laws in Lok Sabha. They are meant to be ‘misused’ against those who speak the truth.”