Police detained loads of Hindu Mahasabha functionaries on Saturday after they gathered outside Lulu Mall in Lucknow and staged a philosophize.
Brandishing saffron flags and elevating slogans, the demonstrators had been met with heavy police deployment and barricading outside the mall premises. They had been all taken into custody.
This comes a day after four of us had been arrested for reciting the Sundar Kand outside the doorway gate of Lulu Mall. They had been sent to judicial custody for violating Portion 144.
The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha has been protesting after a viral video showed a community of men offering namaz within the as of late opened mall. The supreme-waft outfit had also sought permission from local authorities to recite Hanuman Chalisa cease to the mall on Friday, but their request changed into turned down.
Hindu Mahasabha’s national spokesperson, Shishir Chaturvedi, earlier stated, “Individuals provided namaz sitting on the bottom in Lulu Mall, this video proves that authorities orders had been violated in the mall. The authorities has directed that namaz can’t be provided in public areas.”
After the video surfaced on social media, a case changed into registered on a complaint by Lulu Mall representatives. Several unidentified of us had been booked on charges of promoting enmity between diversified groups and meaning to outrage non secular emotions.
The mall authorities also put up notices across the property on Friday declaring, “No non secular prayers will likely be licensed in the mall.”
The Lulu Mall in Lucknow changed into inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday and has been opened by Abu Dhabi-basically basically based mostly Lulu Community, led by Indian-foundation billionaire Yussuf Ali M A.
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