Hyderabad, May 20 -- The Maharashtra police have filed a sedition case against social activist Pushpa Vira Sathidar and two others for allegedly reciting Faiz Ahmed Faiz's famous poem 'Hum Dekhenge,' at a recent event, claiming it contained lines that posed a threat to India's sovereignty.

On May 13, Pushpa Vira Sathidar conducted the Vira Sathidar Memorial, a cultural programme in Nagpur in honour of her late husband, Vira Sathidar, a strong supporter of the anti-caste movement.

The cultural event mainly conducts songs, poetry recitals, and plays. Hundreds of people had participated.

The sedition charges were pressed after an FIR was lodged by a right-wing activist, Dattatray Shirke, who alleged that "when the Indian armed forces were...