Lucknow, Jan 30 (UNI) A case has been lodged against 10 named persons, including Samajwadi Party (SP) national general secretary and MLC Swami Prasad Maurya, and some unidentified persons for allegedly damaging and burning copies of Ramcharitmanas, a police spokesman said here on Monday.
The spokesman said that the FIR was lodged by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker Satnam Singh 'Lavi' at PGI police station late on Sunday night. It may be noted that some persons claiming themselves to the members of Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha burnt pages of Ramcharitmanas in Vrindavan colony in the state capital Lucknow.
He said, "The complainant has alleged that on Sunday morning around 9 am Devendra Pratap Yadav, Yashpal Singh Lodhi, Satendra Kushwaha, Mahendra Pratap Yadav, Sujit Yadav, Naresh Singh, SS Yadav, Santosh Verma, Salim and some other unknown people tore and burnt the copies of Ramcharitmanas near the office of the Housing and Development Board in sector 9."