"Ganga Iftar Incident Done Under Someone's Influence": Claims Advocate Shashank Tripathi

Owaisi slams arrest of 14 Muslims over iftaar on boat in River Ganga: 'Does sewage dump in Ganga not hurt you?'

Fourteen people had been arrested for allegedly defiling a place of worship and hurting religious sentiments after a video surfaced showing them eating chicken biryani during an Iftar gathering on a boat in the Ganga River and allegedly throwing leftovers into the water, officials had said.

"Ganga Iftar incident done under someone's influence": claims Advocate Shashank Tripathi

Advocate Shashank Shekhar Tripathi, representing complainant Rajat Jaiswal, said, "First, they made a video of themselves having Iftar at Gangaji and posted it on social media. This hurt the sentiments of Hindus."

Does sewage in Ganga not hurt you? Owaisi slams arrest of 14 Muslims for boat Iftar

Fourteen people were arrested after a video purportedly showed a group of people holding an Iftar gathering on a boat in the Ganga and consuming chicken biryani. Asaduddin Owaisi questioned the arrest of 14 Muslims over the incident.

Varanasi iftar party row: Owners claim youth forcibly took boat

Varanasi: In a significant development, the owners of the boat where 14 youth held an iftar party have claimed that their canoe was forcibly taken against their will. The statements made by Ranjan Sahni and Anil Sahni were recorded by the investigating officer and read aloud in a Varanasi court by the public prosecutor during the hearing on Thursday, March 19. The incident relates to the viral video of 14 Muslim youths who organised an iftar par…

Doesn’t dumping sewage in Ganga hurt sentiments? Slams Owaisi

He came down on the authorities who arrested 14 Muslims over an Iftar gathering on a boat on the Ganga