Five people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow for burning photocopies of pages of Ramcharitmanas allegedly containing objectionable remarks on women and Dalits by the All India OBC Mahasabha. Police told late Monday evening that five people have been arrested in this case. Earlier in this case FIR has been registered against 10 people including Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya. Police said in a statement on Monday evening that out of these ten accused, the five arrested include Satyendra Kushwaha, Yashpal Singh, Devendra Pratap Yadav, Suresh Singh Yadav and Mo Salim.
Police said that on the complaint of a person named Satnam Singh Lavi, an FIR has been registered at the PGI police station here. It has been alleged that burning the copy of the pages of Shri Ramcharitmanas is a threat to peace.
FIR lodged against them including Maurya
He told that FIR has been registered under sections 142, 143, 153A, 295, 295A, 298, 504, 505, 506 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code. Apart from Maurya, the FIR includes Devendra Pratap Yadav, Yashpal Singh, Satyendra Kushwaha, Devendra Pratap Yadav, Sujit Yadav, Naresh Singh, Suresh Singh Yadav, Santosh Verma, Mo Salim and other unknowns.
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