Activist in saffron band tells Muslims at Kashi ghat to stay in their localities
Varanasi: Varanasi police have launched a probe into a viral video where a man wearing saffron bands can be seen quizzing youths at a roadside tea stall and directing Muslim men to stay away from the locality where Hindus live.
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Taking note of this viral video DCP Kashi Gaurav Banswal asked ACP Dashaswamedh Atul Anjan Tripathi to probe the matter.
Further action will be taken based on the outcomes of the ACP's investigation, he added.
Earlier, a video went viral on social media on Friday evening. The video was shot at a tea kiosk in the Dashashwamedh area, which remains abuzz with pilgrims, local devotees, and tourists round the clock. In the video, one youth, posing as a leader of some Hindu organisation, was busy asking the names and residential addresses of scores of Muslim youths enjoying tea there.
After asking their names, he questioned the youths about why they frequented the tea kiosk in this area daily when tea shops were already available in their localities.
He instructed those youths to stay at tea kiosks in their respective localities and later explained in the video, which he shot and uploaded on his social media account on Thursday night, how these Muslim youths were deliberately spending hours at tea kiosks near temples, educational institutions, and other places to "recce Hindu girls" and trap them as part of "love jihad".
Claiming that girls were falling victim to love jihad, he asked those youths not to sit at the tea kiosk near the temple and also asked locals not to let them stay there.
Before this incident, one Rehan was caught while attempting to enter the crowd during the Ganga Aarti at Dashashwamedh Ghat on April 28 and was beaten before the police intervened. Anti-Terror Squad officials also verified his credentials.
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