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Hyderabad: Police in Telangana have arrested five, including a Muslim man who was allegedly assaulted and paraded naked by a group of villagers for posting a reel of himself insulting a saffron flag with the revered Hindu symbol Om inscribed on it...
Sangareddy Superintendent of Police (SP) Chennuri Rupesh told ThePrint that the reel in question was recorded on 22 January the day of the consecration of an idol of the Hindu deity Ram at the newly constructed temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.We have arrested all the five offenders, who have been sent to remand..
Based on a complaint by villagers, police had booked five men including the Muslim man seen in the reel under IPC Sections 153A (promoting enmity between groups), 253A (offending religious beliefs) and 505 (2) (promoting hatred or ill-will)...
The counter case lodged against those who allegedly assaulted the man was registered under IPC Sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 505 (2) (statements conducing public mischief) and 506 (criminal intimidation)...
The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has alleged that lenience shown by successive state governments Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the Congress encourages the growth of Muslim fanaticism in Telangana...
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