Raipur: Hindu non-secular chief Kalicharan Maharaj, arrested over alleged derogatory feedback about Mahatma Gandhi, turned into on Friday despatched in judicial custody by way of a court docket in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district.
The police produced him inside the courtroom an afternoon beforehand of the expiry of his police remand, pronouncing they had wondered him and did not want his further custody.
After his arrest from neighboring Madhya Pradesh on Thursday early morning by using Raipur police, the Raipur courtroom had sent him in police custody for two days.
“He was scheduled to be produced once more on Saturday. But police finished the thinking and supplied him earlier than Judicial Magistrate First Class Chetna Thakur on Friday and requested that he be despatched in judicial custody,” said District Prosecution Officer Hina Yasmin Khan.
The court sent him on judicial remand till January 13.
After his alleged feedback about the Mahatma went viral and drew large condemnation, Raipur police on Thursday apprehended Kalicharan Maharaj alias Abhijeet Dhananjay Saraag from close to Bageshwar Dham, approximately 25 km from Khajuraho town in Madhya Pradesh.
Before that, on Sunday, an FIR become registered in opposition to him at Tikrapara police station here underneath IPC sections 505 (2) (statements creating or promoting enmity, hatred, or ill-will among training) and 294 (obscene acts). Later, police brought section 124 A (sedition) too.
His arrest had brought about a row among the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh and the Congress authorities in Chhattisgarh. The MP government claimed that its police were no longer intimated about the movement.