Angry at God, vagabond throws stones at temple in Delhi; arrested
Holding a grudge towards God for giving him a lifetime of vagabond, a 28-year-old man allegedly threw stones and bricks at a temple in west Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh on Saturday, police stated. The man recognized as Vicky Mal has been arrested, they stated.
Ranjeet Pathak, the priest at Vaishno Mata Mandir, discovered that two statues of Lord Shiva, which have been saved in an open space of the temple, have been damaged Saturday morning.
Stones and brick items have been additionally discovered mendacity contained in the temple premises, police stated.
During investigation, police analysed CCTV footage and located that Mal, who labored as a ragpicker, was behind the incident.
The accused used to work along with his father earlier than the coronavirus-induced lockdown. His father later went again to Motihari in Bihar.
Mal began holding grudge towards God for giving him the lifetime of a vagabond, a police officer stated.
An FIR was registered towards the accused beneath IPC sections 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, meant to outrage non secular emotions of any class by insulting its faith or non secular beliefs) and 457 (lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night time in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment), he stated, including that additional investigation is underway.
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