The Special Session Court for the trial of MPs/MLAs in Hyderabad's Nampally on Wednesday acquitted All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi in two hate speech cases registered against him in 2012.
Mr. Owaisi, Chandrayangutta MLA and AIMIM floor leader in the Telangana Legislative Assembly, had allegedly delivered the speeches in his public addresses at Nirmal town and Nizamabad town in December, 2012.
For his alleged remarks, he was also arrested the following month and remanded to judicial custody. And after 40 days in prison, he secured conditional bail.