Ghaziabad: Priest says boy thrashed got ‘befitting reply’
Abhijay Jha | TNN | Updated: Mar 16, 2021, 09:49 IST
TNNThe priest said they have put a notice outside the temple stating that people from minority communities are not permitted there
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GHAZIABAD: The chief priest of Dasna Devi temple on Monday came out strongly in support of his aide Shringi Narayan Yadav, who was arrested last week for thrashing a 14-year-old boy from a
minority community
who had come to drink water inside the compound, for giving a “befitting reply to trespassers”, exactly as instructed by him.
Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati – Deepak Tyagi of Bulandshahr, before he took ‘sanyas’ – was speaking at a press conference called to clear the air on the beating that
triggered outrage
on social media and led to the arrest of Shringi. He was flanked by a few others as he spoke. The group nodded in agreement and some spoke out of turn to emphasise what “Maharaj-ji” was saying.
Among them was Pinky Chaudhary, who had been booked in 2014 for vandalism at the Aam Aadmi Party office in Kaushambi and, more recently, was in the news for claiming responsibility for the attack on students inside the JNU campus in January 2020. “We have to strengthen ourselves and Maharaj-ji is doing just what is needed,” he said.
Speaking about the assault on the boy last Friday, Saraswati said, “I had trained my followers well to give a befitting reply to trespassers from a specific minority community, and all they did on Friday was they were following my instructions.”
He added, “We have put up a notice outside the temple gate that people from minority communities are not permitted here. This is known to everyone in the area and yet this boy entered on the pretext of
drinking water.
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Abhijay Jha | TNN | Updated: Mar 16, 2021, 09:49 IST
GHAZIABAD: The chief priest of Dasna Devi temple on Monday came out strongly in support of his aide Shringi Narayan Yadav, who was arrested last week for thrashing a 14-year-old boy from a
minority community
who had come to drink water inside the compound, for giving a “befitting reply to trespassers”, exactly as instructed by him.
Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati – Deepak Tyagi of Bulandshahr, before he took ‘sanyas’ – was speaking at a press conference called to clear the air on the beating that
triggered outrage
on social media and led to the arrest of Shringi. He was flanked by a few others as he spoke. The group nodded in agreement and some spoke out of turn to emphasise what “Maharaj-ji” was saying.
Among them was Pinky Chaudhary, who had been booked in 2014 for vandalism at the Aam Aadmi Party office in Kaushambi and, more recently, was in the news for claiming responsibility for the attack on students inside the JNU campus in January 2020. “We have to strengthen ourselves and Maharaj-ji is doing just what is needed,” he said.
Speaking about the assault on the boy last Friday, Saraswati said, “I had trained my followers well to give a befitting reply to trespassers from a specific minority community, and all they did on Friday was they were following my instructions.”
He added, “We have put up a notice outside the temple gate that people from minority communities are not permitted here. This is known to everyone in the area and yet this boy entered on the pretext of
drinking water.
Ghaziabad: Priest says boy thrashed got ‘befitting reply’ | Ghaziabad News - Times of India
The chief priest of Dasna Devi temple on Monday came out strongly in support of his aide Shringi Narayan Yadav, who was arrested last week for thrashi
