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Fourteen radical person been arrested connected charges of defiling a spot of worship and hurting spiritual feelings aft a video purportedly showing them eating chickenhearted biryani during an Iftar enactment hosted connected a vessel successful the Ganga stream was wide shared connected societal media, officials said connected Tuesday (March 17. 2026).
The enactment was taken connected a written ailment filed connected Monday by the BJP Yuva Morcha's metropolis portion main Rajat Jaiswal. The lawsuit was registered astatine the Kotwali constabulary station.
Mr. Jaiswal alleged that an Iftar enactment was organised connected a vessel successful the Ganga, during which chickenhearted biryani was consumed.
"The Ganga holds heavy and unshakeable religion for the followers of Sanatan Dharma. Thousands of devotees from crossed the state and the satellite sojourn Kashi each time to execute rituals and connection prayers utilizing Ganga water.
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"In specified a situation, eating biryani connected a vessel successful the mediate of the stream and throwing its leftovers into the h2o is wholly inappropriate. This enactment appears to person been done with the volition of hurting the spiritual sentiments of Hindus," helium said.
Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP) Vijay Pratap Singh connected Tuesday said that a video went viral connected Monday, purportedly showing a radical of radical holding an Iftar enactment connected a vessel connected the Ganga and consuming biryani during the gathering.
The FIR was lodged nether BNS sections 298 (injuring oregon defiling a spot of worship with intent to insult th religion of immoderate class), 299 (deliberate and malacious acts intended to outrage spiritual feelings), 196(1) B (promoting enmity betwixt antithetic groups connected grounds of religion, race, spot etc), 270 (public nuisance), 279 (fouling h2o of nationalist outpouring oregon reservoir) and Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.
