Curbs on Akbaruddin's stay in Aurangabad

HYDERABAD: A day after Maharashtra's Thane police served a notice to Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi barring him from entering Mumbra limits citing a threat to law and order, a second notice was served to the Chandrayangutta MLA on Tuesday. This time, by the Aurangabad police commissionerate.
According to sources, the notice, while not barring him from addressing public gatherings, has cautioned him against making provocative speeches, which could whip up passions and foment communal tension.The notice reached Akbaruddin Owaisi at a guest house after he took a break from visiting shrines of Sufi saints in Aurangabad city and Khuldabad, the sources said.
Owaisi, on the other hand, questioned the validity of the notice. He said that he was in the city to attend an iftar dinner and had no intention of addressing any public meeting. Sources said that Owaisi is likely to travel to Mumbai to attend iftar dinners planned by his party supporters there.
The Owaisi brothers are being frequently barred from entering various cities across the country for more than a year. They are being stopped from addressing public meetings organized by their supporters. Akbaruddin's elder brother and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi was also denied entry into Aurangabad in January 2013 where he was scheduled to attend a public meeting. In June last year, Asaduddin was barred from entering Malegaon and Dhule, again in Maharashtra, in June 2013. Like Akbaruddin, he was stopped from entering Thane last February. Further, the Samajwadi Party had denied Asaduddin permission to hold a public meeting in Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh in February.
The brothers have described the notices as arbitrary and also a violation of their fundamental right to move freely anywhere in the country. The also said that they would challenge these notices which curtailed their movement.