Clicking pictures ‘inappropriate to religious place’: Youths thrashed
2 min read A number of movies clips purportedly displaying house guards thrashing and abusing two youths on Triveni Ghat, a part of the Somnath temple complicated close to Veraval in Gir Somnath district, had been extensively shared on social media on Thursday with police claiming that the boys clicked “photos inappropriate to the religious place” with three ladies.
In the movies, a lady house guard is seen slapping and verbally abusing the 2 younger males in addition to one of many three ladies accompanying them. Other male house guards are seen beating up the boys with a fibre baton whilst one of many ladies pleads, “I bow down and touch your feet. Please forgive us this time, madam. I am a devotee of Lord Shiva and would not do it again.”
Another man is heard retorting, “Better you touch the feet of your father”, whilst one other woman is seen complaining, “Sorry sir, we shall not do this again… What is going on? Why is a video being recorded? We are not guilty of anything. We have done nothing.”
The lady guard asks her, “Don’t you feel ashamed to roam around in this manner”, when the woman replies, “We don’t know anything. Masiba (auntee) also doesn’t know. We are guests from Jamnagar… We were just having darshan in the shrine of Lord Shiva.” The lady guard cuts her brief, shouting on the ladies to depart the place.
The alleged incident came about on February 5 and the 2 males had been later taken to Prabhas Patan police station. After the movies went viral, Prabhas Patan police inspector GM Rathva stated that the duo had challenged the authority of the house guards who requested them to not take pictures on the Triveni Ghat.
“The two men and the girls were taking photos by standing too close to each another in a manner inappropriate at a religious place. Someone performing ritual on the ghat asked them to go away and maintain sanctity of the place but the young men did not listen. Therefore, the person called a home guard but the duo challenged his authority and refused to budge… The home guard called other personnel deployed there, including one woman, and they removed the five from the place,” Rathva informed The Indian Express on Thursday.
Rathva stated that each of them had been college students. “They later realised their mistake and tendered written apologies, after which they were allowed to go. No case was registered,” the inspector added. Rathva stated that Prabhas Patan police deploys round 10 house guards on the Triveni Ghat, the place folks carry out shraddh and different rituals.
