By IANS,
Lucknow: Nearly 125 activists of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were Tuesday booked for violating prohibitory orders and firing in the air during Dussehra celebrations in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district, police said.
“An FIR has been registered against about 125 RSS activists, who despite the prohibitory orders, Monday assembled in large numbers and fired in the air during ‘shastra poojan’ (as part of Dussehra festivities),” additional superintendent of police Jagdeesh Singh told IANS over telephone.
The RSS is the ideological fountainhead of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The incident occurred when the police had imposed restrictions on assembly of four or more persons on public streets under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code, that empowers the administration to put this curb for maintaining law and order.
“RSS district chief of Jhansi has been named in the FIR registered today (Tuesday),” Singh added.
Police are yet to make any arrests.
Every year on Dussehra, RSS activists perform a series of rituals, including shastra poojan, and participate in a parade.
Jhansi is about 350 km from Lucknow.