AGRA: Members of Rashtriya Bajrang Dal misbehaved with girls and boys celebrating Valentine’s Day in Agra’s park on Monday and threatened to "send them to jail". An FIR has been registered against the accused involved in the incident.
In a video of the incident that went viral on social media, a group of people, including women wearing saffron scarves, can be seen threatening to send a girl to jail if she did not call her parents. They snatched the girl’s bag to check her ID card, and forcefully removed her face mask.
Besides, the hooligans also slapped and abused the boy accompanying her. The entire incident was recorded on a mobile phone. When some people tried to intervene, the members of the group misbehaved with them too.
Earlier in a day, to oppose Valentine’s Day celebrations, members of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha burnt an effigy of Saint Valentine while Rashtriya Bajrang Dal workers wrapped another effigy in saree and shouted slogans — "Hindustan Me rehna hoga, Jai Shri Ram Kehna Hoga". Later they headed towards parks to target the couples found celebrating the day.
On Sunday, Hindu activists had hung an effigy of Saint Valentine in the city, and had openly threatened to forcefully marry couples found celebrating the "love day" across city parks.
SSP Sudhir Kumar Singh said that the incident took place under Hariparvat police jurisdiction. A FIR has been registered against people involved in the incident.
Police said that two identified persons — Avtaar Singh Gill and Yogesh Thakur from Rashtriya Bajrang Dal and several unidentified ones were booked under IPC sections 147 (rioting), 148 (Rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (criminal intimidation), 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and section 7 in the Criminal Law Amendment Act.
