Man vandalises temple to ‘settle score’ with God
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Accused arrested, case registered
Accused arrested, case registered
A 28-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly vandalising a temple in west Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh in order to ‘settle score’ with the God, the police said on Saturday.
DCP (West) Urvija Goel said the police said that a PCR call was received on Saturday morning from Ranjeet Phatak (47), a priest at Vaishno Mata Mandir in Paschim Puri stating that two Shiva statues were displaced and there were stones and bricks lying in the temple.
Ms. Goel said that when CCTV footage was analysed, it was found that a man later identified as Vicky Mal, a resident of Raghubir Nagar, was responsible for this. It was revealed that he is a vagabond and had a grudge against the God for giving him a life of a vagabond. He was a ragpicker before the lockdown and was currently doing nothing.
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The man identified as Vicky Mal has been arrested, they said.
Ranjeet Pathak, the priest at Vaishno Mata Mandir, found that two statues of Lord Shiva, which were kept in an open area of the temple, were broken Saturday morning.
Stones and brick pieces were also found lying inside the temple premises, police said.
During investigation, police analysed CCTV footage and found that Mal, who worked as a ragpicker, was behind the incident.
The accused used to work with his father before the coronavirus-induced lockdown. His father later went back to Motihari in Bihar.