By Web Desk
Ghaziabad/UP: Police have arrested six activists of Hindu Raksha Dal for distributing over two dozen swords in Shalimar Garden colony, PTI reported, citing police.
These six are among the 17 office bearers of the Hindu Raksha Dal, including its president Bhupendra Chowdhry ‘Pinki’, who have been named as accused in the case. Bhupendra is on the run.
More than two dozen unidentified activists of the group have been booked, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Trans Hindon) Nimish Patil said.
The case has been registered under sections 191(2) (guilty of rioting), 191(3) (guilty of rioting, being armed with a deadly weapon or with anything which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death), 127(2) (wrongful confinement) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, he said.
Police teams are raiding the hideouts of the group members who took out a procession in the colony. Raising pro-Hindu and anti-Muslim slogans, they went door-to-door in the area, distributing weapons.
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