The 2 men had allegedly absconded from Mussoorie and were arrested from adjacent Ashkrodi, immoderate 40 kilometres away. (File)
The Dehradun Police Wednesday arrested 2 beverage sellers from Mussoorie “for trying to incite spiritual sentiments” aft a video purportedly showed them spitting successful a teapot.
According to a connection from the police, Naushad and Hasan Ali, who hail from Muzaffarnagar successful Uttar Pradesh and unrecorded successful Mussoorie, were arrested connected the ground of a ailment made by a antheral identified arsenic Himanshu Bishnoi.
In his complaint, Bishnoi claimed that helium saw 1 of the 2 men who were selling beverage astatine Mussoorie’s Library Chowk repeatedly spitting into the pan, and changeable the video.
The 2 men person been booked nether sections 196 (1) (b) (pertains to actions that beforehand enmity oregon hatred betwixt antithetic spiritual groups, perchance inciting communal tensions), 274 (adulteration of nutrient oregon portion intended for sale), 299 (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage spiritual feelings of immoderate people by insulting its religion oregon spiritual beliefs), and 351 (criminal intimidation) and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
“The accused, by this act, not lone played with the wellness of the radical but besides tried to provoke them by hurting their spiritual sentiments. In presumption of the seriousness of the incident, Senior Superintendent of Police, Dehradun, constituted a squad by directing Inspector in-charge Mussoorie to apprehension the accused immediately,” the constabulary said.
According to the statement, the 2 men had allegedly absconded from Mussoorie and were arrested from adjacent Ashkrodi, immoderate 40 kilometres away.
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