‘Drink tea in your own area': Saffron band activist asks names of Muslim youths, instructs to stay in their locality, probe ordered
A video showing a saffron-clad activist questioning Muslim youths at a Varanasi tea kiosk has gone viral, prompting a police investigation. The activist is seen asking the youths their names and directing them to patronize tea shops in their own neighborhoods.
VARANASI: A video of a saffron band activist went viral on social media, showing him asking the names of Muslim youths at a tea kiosk in the
Dashaswamedh
area and directing them to enjoy tea at kiosks in their own locality.
DCP Kashi Gaurav
Banswal said on Saturday that, taking note of this viral video,
ACP Dashaswamedh
Atul Anjan Tripathi was instructed to probe into the matter. Further action will be taken based on the outcomes of the ACP's investigation, he added.
Earlier, a video became viral on social media on Friday evening.
The video was shot at a tea kiosk in the Dashaswamedh area, which remains abuzz with pilgrims, local devotees, and tourists round the clock. In this 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.
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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 requested 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 of
Ganga Aarti at Dashaswamedh Ghat
on April 28 and was beaten before the police intervened. Anti-Terror Squad officials also verified his credentials.
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