RSS workers detained in Tamil Nadu for 'trespassing' into govt school to hold drill, released
Chennai (PTI): RSS workers "trespassed" into the premises of a government school here on Thursday and they were detained and later released, police said.
According to Avadi Police Commissionerate, about 40 RSS swayamsevaks entered the premises of a state-run school at Iyyappanthangal and conducted a drill.
"We have registered a case for trespassing against the RSS workers, following a complaint from school authorities," a top Avadi police official said.
The BJP strongly condemned the police action and hit out at the DMK regime for its "anti-national mindset," for acting against the patriotic activities of the RSS.
Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagenthran said the nationalist RSS workers' selfless, patriotic work cannot be cowed down by police case and arrest. He said the Sangh's drill had been happening at that spot in Chennai for many years now, without any disturbance to the general public.
BJP leader Tamilisai Soundararajan, in a post on 'X' said: "I strongly condemn Tamil Nadu Govt @CMOTamilnadu @mkstalin for arresting #RSS Swayamsevaks, who were conducting a peaceful Shakha in a ground today in Chennai where they have been conducting for many yrs in the past but today—particularly on Vijayadashami day which marks the 100th centenary year celebration of RSS—this arrest is highly condemnable & undemocratic."
Further, she said: "In TN, @mkstalin govt turns blind eye to all day to day anti-social activities, deteriorating law and order situation, but national, traditional, spiritual, and patriotic cultural activities are curtailed. This clearly reveals the anti-national mindset of DMK @arivalayam.
I appeal for the immediate release of all arrested RSS cadres today. I met them all in the place where they are detained under police custody after the arrest & conveyed my moral support to them & enquired the police officials why they are arrested? Our karyakartas are facing the situation with courage as usual. That is the spirit of RSS."
'Vijayadasami' (celebrated today, October 2, 2025) this year marks the 100th founding anniversary of the RSS.
Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the RSS addressed the annual Vijayadashmi rally in Nagpur and said global interdependence should not become a compulsion and there is no substitute for 'swavalamban' (self-reliance).
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Nashik court sends ‘godman’ Kharat to 3-day police custody in 7th sexual exploitation case
Nashik (PTI): A court in Maharashtra's Nashik has remanded self-styled astrologer-cum-godman Ashok Kharat to police custody till April 29 in the seventh case of sexual exploitation registered against him.
Kharat, a former Merchant Navy officer arrested on March 18, is accused of sexually exploiting several women and indulging in large-scale financial fraud by claiming to have divine powers and knowledge of black magic.
In the seventh case, Kharat sexually exploited a married woman who had approached him in search of solutions to her family problems.
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The accused allegedly gave the woman something to drink, sexually assaulted her while her husband sat outside his office and threatened to kill her if she told anyone about it.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is probing into 12 cases of sexual exploitation and financial fraud registered against Kharat in Nashik and Ahilyanagar districts, on Sunday filed a request application in the court demanding his custody in the seventh case.
Kharat was produced in court for a virtual hearing in the seventh case on Monday.
The prosecution demanded six-day police custody for Kharat, citing the discovery of a locker in Kharat's house during the investigation, from which the police recovered two blank cheques and other documents, all of which have to be probed.
The court agreed to the prosecution's demand and remanded Kharat to three-day police custody till April 29 in the case.
Kharat has been at the centre of a political firestorm, as he was well-connected, and photographs of him with political leaders and other important members of society have been surfacing in mainstream and social media since his arrest.
