Mumbai, July 21: Police commissioner A.. Roy has promised an immediate inquiry into the charge that Urdu Times, a daily published from the city, has mounted a malicious campaign against poet-writer Javed Akhtar to incite communal hatred.

The organisation met the commissioner yesterday with the complaint that the newspaper was also instigating violence against Akhtar, who is the organisation president, and other office-bearers and members.

The commissioner told them that the media monitoring cell of the Mumbai police had already drawn his attention to certain articles in the Urdu Times.