Indian police says they have arrested a Hindu monk who called for the “genocide” of India’s Muslims at a meeting of his supporters, potentially facing up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Swatantra Kumar, the chief police officer, said Yati Narsinghanand Giri, an outspoken supporter of far-right nationalists who also heads a Hindu monastery, “is under arrest for 14 days on charges of hate speech against Muslims and calls for violence against Muslims.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kumar added that Hindu monk Giri “was formally charged, on Monday, with promoting hostility between different groups on the basis of religion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He indicated that the penalty for the charges against Jerry could be up to 5 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last December, Giri and other Hindu religious leaders called for arming themselves to commit “genocide” against Muslims during a closed-door meeting in Haridwar, a sacred town in Uttarakhand state, revealed by videos on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giri is the second person to be arrested in the case after India’s Supreme Court intervened last week to resolve the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uttarakhand is ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), whose rise to power in 2014 and his landslide re-election in 2019, led to an upsurge in attacks against Muslims and other minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Muslims make up nearly 14 percent of India’s 1.4 billion people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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