Uttarakhand 4 kanwariyas arrested for attacking man with brands

Uttarakhand Four kanwariyas from Haryana have been arrested then in Uttarakhand for allegedly attacking a parking lot hand with brands following an argument over parking figure, police said on Sunday. The hand suffered a serious injury to his head in the incident that took place on Saturday evening in the Janaki Pul parking lot near the Neelkanth tabernacle.

The indicted had kept their tractor- trolley there, Muni ki Reti police station in- charge Ritesh Shah said. Kanwariyas are Shiv addicts who travel to collect water from the Ganga from countries it passes through. They use the water to perform the ‘ jalabhishek ’ of the deity in tabernacles in areas they hail from during the Hindu holy month of Sawan.

Shah said after visiting the tabernacle, when the kanwariyas reached the parking lot, Balam Singh Bisht, Ajay and Subhash asked for parking figure. There was an argument and the indicted attacked Bisht with brands, the officer said.

A case was registered on a complaint from the parking lot’s contractor Rahul Gupta and Mahant Saurabh Giri Naga Baba( 40), Divya alias Deepu( 19), Rajat( 19) and Arun( 18), all residers of Haryana’s Sonipat, were arrested, Shah said.