Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed for restraint and forgiveness after abusive slogans directed at him during student protests over alleged paper leaks at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar led to a police case against a 25-year-old woman, saying that “abuses never solve anything” and urging society to guide, rather than punish, those who had gone astray.
“What happened at Jantar Mantar has been seen by the country and the world,” he said. “Some misguided youngsters used language that has no place in any civilised society. I was abused, and even my late mother was abused.”