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The accused was booked under Section 298 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after identification from social media clips. Hindu organisations demanded strict action, cautioning authorities against attributing deliberate religious desecration to mental instability claims casually.

The Telangana government wants us to dismiss the Hyderabad temple desecration case as just another mentally unstable, educated boy indulging in some ill-advised conduct, but the truth is far from it.

The incident has outraged the locals and the Hindu organisations. They are demanding strict action against the accused Qasim.

Angry locals thrashed the accused Chand Shaikh (19) and his father Naushad Shaikh (44) and brought them to the police station.

After a video went viral showing a person desecrating a Tulsi plant near Guruvayur temple in Kerala, some members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad performed purification puja of the Tulsi plant

In a tweet, Amit Malviya said, "In Jharia village (under Goghat PS in Hooghly), idols of Maa Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati were found desecrated - raped and defiled."