FIR against Lucknow professor for objectionable comment on Baba Bageshwar; know the whole matter

National News: A case has been registered against a professor of Lucknow University for making objectionable remarks against Pandit Dhirendra Shastri, the head of Bageshwar Dham. Professor Dr. Ravikant Chandan is an associate professor in the Hindi department. The Bamitha police station of Chhatarpur district has registered an FIR against Ravikant. The case is of hurting religious sentiments and spreading communal tension in the society.

Serious allegations against Dheerendra Shastri 

According to the police, Dr. Chandan made a controversial post on the social media platform 'X' (formerly Twitter) and made serious allegations against Dheerendra Shastri. He claimed that Shastri was involved in trafficking of women and also used objectionable language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Dr. Ravikant had written in his post that non-biological Prime Minister Narendra Modi's younger brother Dhirendra Shastri is involved in trafficking women in the name of religion. A thorough investigation should be done, and if found guilty, Dhirendra should be hanged. After this statement went viral, Dhirendra Kumar Gaur, a member of Bageshwar Dham Jan Seva Samiti, filed a complaint against the professor.

 What did Gaur allege?

In the complaint, Gaur alleged that the comment made against Pandit Dheerendra Shastri not only hurt the sentiments of religious followers but also worked to spread bitterness and animosity in the society. According to the FIR, the accused professor's post deliberately tried to provoke the followers of a particular religion and disturb the peace. The police is now seriously investigating the matter.

Professor’s Video Deepens Bageshwar Controversy

The controversy in this case escalated further when the accused professor shared a video clip of July 28, in which 13 women were being taken in an ambulance in suspicious circumstances in the Lavkushnagar area of ​​Chhatarpur. On receiving information on Dial 100, the police stopped the ambulance and questioned it. The driver said that these women were from Bageshwar Dham and were being taken to Mahoba railway station.

The women alleged that a sevadaar of Bageshwar Dham forcibly made them sit in the car by holding their hair and threatened to kill them. They also said that they had come for darshan and peshi, but it was not clear where they were being taken.