Peeing at RSS office: Activist booked for 'hate speech'

Days after a Dubai-returned banker was arrested after being booked for 'attempt to murder' and 'rioting with deadly weapons' for allegedly peeing on the RSS office wall and ending up in a "brawl" with its members, police in Shahjahanpur registered two more FIRs in the case on Saturday night, reports Kanwardeep Singh. Rajesh Awasthi, a local activist and ex-district president of VHP, has been booked under IPC sections 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot), 506 (criminal intimidation), 268 (guilty of public nuisance) and 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs). Two local scribes were also booked for "sharing fake news on social media".