FIR Against Muslims Over Graveyard Demand Exposes ‘CongRSS’ Intolerance: Abdullah Sohail
FIR Against Muslims | Hyderabad, August 28 (Maxim News): BRS senior leader Shaik Abdullah Sohail came down heavily on the Congress government for registering an FIR against ordinary Muslims who staged a peaceful protest in Jubilee Hills constituency demanding land for a graveyard.
He said the move was nothing but an act of intimidation, designed to silence a genuine demand that has been pending for years.
Directly blaming Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for unleashing the police on the community, Sohail said the case was not a routine law-and-order response but reflected a deliberate and communal mindset.
“This FIR is not an accident or a local decision. It reflects the communal thinking of the Revanth Reddy government. Instead of fulfilling a just demand, the Congress regime is treating Muslims as criminals for seeking a piece of land where they can bury their loved ones with dignity,” he said in a media statement on Thursday.
FIR Against Muslims | Borabanda Police Station
The FIR, registered in Crime No. 529/2025 at Borabanda Police Station and placed before the Hon’ble III Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Nampally, was based on a complaint from a police constable who admitted that Friday prayers outside Tawhid Masjid had caused no obstruction.
Yet, when around 200 people briefly held placards and raised slogans demanding graveyard land after Namaz on August 22, the police claimed they blocked the road and disrupted traffic. The case named a few individuals, including Maqram, Javeed, Khader, Yakub, Munir Khan, and Sharif, and invoked multiple provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
It was booked under Section 292, which deals with public nuisance and carries nothing more than a fine of up to Rs. 1,000; Section 223, which punishes disobedience of orders of a public servant with up to six months’ jail or one year if it causes danger; and Section 126(2), which criminalises wrongful restraint with up to one month’s imprisonment or a fine of Rs. 5,000.
Sohail said that by piling such minor and bailable sections on peaceful protesters, the government was using law as a weapon of fear.
FIR Against Muslims | Muslims in Jubilee Hills
He reminded that Muslims in Jubilee Hills have been struggling for graveyard land for years, and the previous BRS government had already initiated steps to resolve the issue. The Congress government, which assumed office in December 2023, has abandoned that process and chosen confrontation over cooperation.
“Rather than continuing the positive steps initiated by BRS, this government has chosen to book cases under multiple sections, creating an atmosphere of fear,” he said. Calling the move “a shameful chapter in Telangana’s democratic history,” Sohail said the FIR exposed the Congress’s double standards. “Once again, it has been proved that Telangana is under ‘CongRSS’ rule, not ‘Congress’ rule.
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The Congress of Revanth Reddy is no different from the BJP’s brand of communal politics. This FIR makes it clear that the Revanth government is only a replica of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, ruling by terrorising Muslims,” he said.
BRS leader Shaik Abdullah Sohail
The BRS leader emphasised that Muslims were not indulging in violence or creating a law-and-order situation. They were not rioters, they were not mischief-makers, they were not anti-social elements.
They were common men holding placards, raising slogans for a cause that touches every Muslim family – a resting place for the departed. Criminalising such a demand, he said, was an insult to democracy, an insult to the Constitution, and an insult to the very idea of Telangana for which lakhs of people fought.
He accused the Congress government of selective targeting, saying that if a few hundred farmers gather to protest, they are treated as victims, and if students protest, they are praised as the future of the state, but when Muslims peacefully demand graveyard land, they are branded as criminals.
Sohail warned that such actions would not succeed in silencing the community. “No amount of police cases, threats, or intimidation will deter the Muslims of Jubilee Hills.
Graveyard Land
They will continue their peaceful protests until their demand for graveyard land is met. The community has every right to demand dignity in death just as they demand dignity in life,” he said. He assured that the BRS party stands firmly with the community in this struggle.
“We initiated the process earlier, and we will continue to back the Muslim community until justice is done. If the Congress government continues to suppress voices and register false cases, then it should be prepared to face a massive backlash not only from Muslims but from all sections of society who value justice and equality,” he warned.
FIR Against Muslims | Withdraw FIR
The BRS leader demanded the immediate withdrawal of the FIR and the early allocation of land for a Muslim graveyard in Jubilee Hills. “This is not a favour but a basic right. Denial of burial space is a denial of humanity.
The Chief Minister should stop replicating the anti-Muslim model of the BJP governments and act like the head of a state that respects all communities. If not, history will remember Revanth Reddy not as a Congress leader, but as the man who converted Congress into ‘CongRSS’,” Sohail said. (Maxim News)
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