Wardha: The Wardha police arrested Hindu non secular chief Kalicharan Maharaj on Wednesday in reference to a case registered in opposition to him right here in Maharashtra for allegedly making derogatory remarks in opposition to Mahatma Gandhi.
The seer was introduced right here round 5 am from Raipur in Chhattisgarh, the place he was lodged in a jail in reference to an analogous case registered in opposition to him there, sub-divisional officer of police Piyush Jagtap stated.
He was produced earlier than the court docket of a neighborhood Justice of the Peace who remanded him in judicial custody.
The case in opposition to the non secular chief was registered at Wardha metropolis police station on December 29, 2021.
Earlier, Kalicharan Maharaj had been arrested by the Raipur police for allegedly making derogatory feedback about Mahatma Gandhi at an occasion within the Chhattisgarh capital metropolis on December 26 final yr.
The same case was additionally registered in opposition to him by Akola police in Maharashtra.
Last week, the Pune police had arrested him for allegedly making inflammatory speeches through the ‘Shiv Pratap Din’ programme there on December 19, 2021, organised to have a good time the killing of Adilshahi commander Afzal Khan by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in 1659.
A court docket in Pune final Friday granted bail to him in that case following which he was despatched to jail in Raipur within the case of his feedback in opposition to Mahatma Gandhi.
The Wardha police arrest him on Wednesday from there after submitting a manufacturing warrant, an official stated.
