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  "en": "Gujarat Police arrest Mufti Salman Azhari in hate speech case — PTI via LatestLY, 5 February 2024"
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  "ar": "خبر وكالة PTI ⁦(5 فبراير 2024)⁩ عن اعتقال شرطة غوجارات للمفتي سلمان أزهري في مومباي في قضية خطاب ألقاه في جوناغاد ليلة 31 يناير 2024، وتسجيل دعوى بموجب المادتين 153B و505(2) من قانون العقوبات الهندي.",
  "en": "PTI report (5 February 2024) of the Gujarat Police arrest of Mufti Salman Azhari in Mumbai over a speech delivered at Junagadh on the night of 31 January 2024, with an FIR under Indian Penal Code sections 153B and 505(2)."
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  "title": "Gujarat Police Arrest Islamic Preacher from Mumbai in Hate Speech Case",
  "author": [
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    "family": "Press Trust of India",
    "given": ""
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     2024,
     2,
     5
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  "publisher": "Press Trust of India (PTI), via LatestLY, 5 February 2024, as read on 5 November 2026",
  "URL": "https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/india-news-gujarat-police-arrest-islamic-preacher-from-mumbai-in-hate-speech-case-5738439.html",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Wire report by India's Press Trust of India, read in full on 5 November 2026. It reports that the speech was delivered at an event on an open ground near the 'B' division police station in Junagadh on the night of 31 January 2024; that after a video went viral an FIR was registered against Azhari and local organisers Mohammad Yousuf Malek and Azim Habib Odedara under IPC sections 153B and 505(2); that Gujarat Police traced Azhari to Mumbai and arrested him on Sunday 4 February 2024 with the help of the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad, securing a transit remand to bring him to Junagadh; that officials said permission had been sought for a religious and de-addiction awareness gathering; and that hundreds of supporters gathered outside Ghatkopar police station demanding his release. Allegations are reported as allegations; no verdict is claimed.",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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