Hyderabad: A Muslim man was arrested in Hyderabad on Wednesday, February 23, for allegedly offering namaz at an Ayappa Swamy Temple in Pratap Singaram village of Medchal.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, February 25, around 5:30 pm. Zubair was spotted by members of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) inside the temple premises.
In a video shared on social media platforms, a BJYM member said, “Zubair was offering namaz on top of a shed. We immediately caught him and handed him over to the police.”
The Medipally police, however, said that the accused suffers from a mental health condition. “We have registered a case under Sections 298 (criminalises injuring or defiling a place of worship or any sacred object with the intent to insult a religion), 299 (punishes deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or beliefs), 196 (promoting enemity between different groups on grounds of religion, race etc), 301 (trespassing), 302 (criminalizes deliberately wounding the religious feelings of any person), 333 (house-trespass) of the Bharatiya Nayaya Sanhita (BNS)
“We will shift him to the Erragadda Mental Hospital,” the police said.
