Four arrested in MP city over protests towards Dasna priest

Four males had been arrested in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district on Friday for hurting spiritual sentiments and disturbing communal concord. The arrests had been made on a grievance filed by the members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) following a protest towards Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati close to Jama Masjid in Balaghat.
Saraswati is the pinnacle priest of Dasna Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad towards whom the Delhi Police has lodged an FIR for allegedly hurting spiritual sentiments along with his remarks on the Prophet throughout a press convention in Delhi. On Friday, the Delhi Police summoned Saraswati to hitch the probe.
In an FIR registered at Balaghat’s Kotwali police station, the complainant, Rameshwar Rana, district in-charge of Bajrang Dal, stated the accused — Mateen Ajhari, Kasim Khan, Sohaib Khan and Raza Khan — had pasted a poster of the Dasna priest on the highway and slapped it with footwear.

Durgesh Sharma, a member of the VHP, informed reporters that Balaghat has been a peaceable district however just a few persons are making an attempt to disrupt peace, which has been opposed by all Hindu outfits, together with the VHP and Bajrang Dal. “If they were registering their opposition to something, it could be done through a memorandum. Such acts are not acceptable,” Sharma stated.

Inspector Mansharam Romde of Kotwali police station confirmed that an FIR had been registered and the 4 males arrested. He refused to share any additional particulars, calling it a communally delicate matter.
A delegation of 5 individuals of the AIMIM have additionally written to the police urging them to take authorized motion towards the Dasna priest for his remarks on the Press Club of India in New Delhi on April 1. “Instead of taking action against the saint who has hurt the sentiments of the entire Muslim community, four members of our community have been arrested,” stated Nazim Khan, district in-charge of AIMIM in Balaghat.