Tension continued to prevail in Gajwel town on Tuesday as various Hindu organisations gave a call for a bandh in protest against the alleged desecration of a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji on Pedched road Monday night.
Following the incident, night members of Bhagat Youth association and other locals confronted and manhandled the accused, who was allegedly in an inebriated state and had urinated at the base of the statue. He was later handed over to the police.
The police invoked IPC Sections 294 (performing obscene acts and songs), 294B (singing, reciting or uttering obscene song, ballad or words in public place), 295A (deliberate intent to outrage religious feelings), 504 (insulting someone to provoke) against the accused.
