LUCKNOW: An FIR was lodged towards eight folks for tearing pages of Ramcharitmanas, an epic poem in Awadhi language penned by Goswami Tulsidas, and burning it in Vrindavan Yojna space of Lucknow late on Sunday.
The FIR was lodged on the PGI police station of Lucknow.
Station home officer Rajesh Rana advised TOI that they acquired a grievance from a BJP member, Satnam Singh Lavi, on the premise of which the FIR was lodged.
“Unsavoury feedback towards Ramcharitmanas and burning of its pages in public could create a rift in society and result in communal pressure. The accused spoke towards the holy guide on social media and thus harm the feelings of Hindus,” stated Rana.
SHO Rana stated that the accused named by Satnam Singh in his FIR are Yashpal Singh Lodhi, Devendra Yadav, Mahendra Pratap Yadav, Naresh Singh, SS Yadav, Sujit, Santosh Verma and Salim.
All of them have been booked below sections 153-A (selling enmity), 295 A (outrage non secular emotions), 505 (to incite outrage) and 298 (harm non secular emotions) of the Indian Penal Code and part 66 of the IT Act.
Police stated that the accused named in the FIR had come out in assist of Samajwadi Occasion MLC Swami Prasad Maurya below the banner of Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha on Sunday.
Maurya had not too long ago precipitated a row when he raised objections to sure verses from the guide and termed them “towards the ladies, backwards and Dalits”.
The FIR was lodged on the PGI police station of Lucknow.
Station home officer Rajesh Rana advised TOI that they acquired a grievance from a BJP member, Satnam Singh Lavi, on the premise of which the FIR was lodged.
“Unsavoury feedback towards Ramcharitmanas and burning of its pages in public could create a rift in society and result in communal pressure. The accused spoke towards the holy guide on social media and thus harm the feelings of Hindus,” stated Rana.
SHO Rana stated that the accused named by Satnam Singh in his FIR are Yashpal Singh Lodhi, Devendra Yadav, Mahendra Pratap Yadav, Naresh Singh, SS Yadav, Sujit, Santosh Verma and Salim.
All of them have been booked below sections 153-A (selling enmity), 295 A (outrage non secular emotions), 505 (to incite outrage) and 298 (harm non secular emotions) of the Indian Penal Code and part 66 of the IT Act.
Police stated that the accused named in the FIR had come out in assist of Samajwadi Occasion MLC Swami Prasad Maurya below the banner of Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha on Sunday.
Maurya had not too long ago precipitated a row when he raised objections to sure verses from the guide and termed them “towards the ladies, backwards and Dalits”.