Goons barged inside a mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district on Monday and chanted “Jai Shri Ram” slogans before they damaged some loudspeakers of the mosque.
A video has also gone viral on social media following the incident.
According to a report published on The Times of India Mohammad Riyaz, mosque’s imam present at the time of the incident, had said the youths told him that they had come to remove the loudspeakers from the mosque.
Quoting Riyaz, police said the youths allegedly threatened him before going upstairs for removing the wires of the loudspeakers. They also damaged some of the equipment. The youths were part of the same group that had allegedly recited the “Hanuman Chalisa” in Govardhan’s Eidgah in November last year, police said.
An FIR had been registered against eight people. Nine people have been arrested following the incident.
The Govardhan police station incharge Inspector Pradeep Chaudhary have confirmed the arrest of the accused.