Updated Feb 08, 2021 | 16:09 IST
A large number of agitated local residents and saints reached the Govardhan police station in UP s Mathura and filed a complaint against officials of the web portal. Govardhan Shila on sale; FIR lodged | Photo Credit: IANS
Mathura: The Mathura police have registered an FIR against three persons, including the founder and CEO of an Indian e-commerce company IndiaMART, for allegedly selling sacred Govardhan Shila (stone) as a product on their website.
Circle office Govardhan, Ravikant Parashar told reporters that the FIR has been registered under sections 295 (destruction, damage, or defiling any place of worship held sacred by any class of persons with the intention of thereby insulting the religion of any class of persons) of IPC and section 66D of the IT Act against three persons.