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Patiala, May 19
The Rajpura police have arrested a man for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of people. The suspect has been identified as Satish Kumar of Gau Sewa Dal, Rajpura. SHO City Harmanpreet Singh said Satish was presented in a court, which sent him to 14-day judicial custody.
The SHO said a matter of land ownership was pending at the court of SDM Rajpura for which he had called both the contending parties for a hearing recently. He said Satish was arrested on the suspicion of spreading inflammatory messages on social media and hurting religious sentiments.
The SHO said the police had registered a case against Satish under Section 153 A1B of the IPC.
Mukhwinder Singh Chhina,IG, Patiala Zone, said no one would be allowed to spread inflammatory messages and hurt sentiments of people.
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