Muzaffarnagar: Forty-seven Hindu activists have been booked in Shamli district for allegedly making communal statements throughout a gathering held to demand the closure of non-vegetarian inns and eating places, police mentioned on Sunday.
The Hindu panchayat led by Mahant Swami Yashvir of Yog Sadhan Ashram Bhagra — who has been named within the FIR — was allegedly held in Thanabhawan city on September 29 with out permission, they mentioned.
Final Sunday, Hindu activists, together with Yashvir, gathered outdoors a non-vegetarian resort, demanding that every one such institutions inside hundred metres of temples within the city be shut.
In the course of the protest, they allegedly chanted spiritual slogans and made provocative statements in opposition to Muslims, in line with police.
Station Home Officer (SHO) Virender Kasana mentioned, “A case has been registered in opposition to 47 Hindu activists, together with seven named people, below related sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Mahant Swami Yashvir can also be named within the FIR lodged on September 30.”
In response to the police case lodged, Hindu activists have introduced plans to stage a protest on October 10, opposing the costs levelled in opposition to their fellow activists.
