500 booked for raising objectionable slogans

Faizabad: The Faizabad police on Monday booked 500 persons for playing inflammatory songs and raising objectionable slogans in "Ram Baraat", a procession that was taken out on October 15 to celebrate the return of Lord Ram to Ayodhya from exile.
According to police sources, the procession was led by leaders of a right wing party and its associate organisations.
While the procession was passing through Galla Mandi, a sensitive area dominated by both communities in about the same ratio, the participants of the procession started playing inflammatory songs loudly from a music system being carried with the procession.
When the police tried to stop the songs from being played, the participants of the procession continued to play the songs, creating communal tension in the area. Faizabad SP City Sankalp Sharma said a case has been booked under Sections 188 and 153 A of the IPC against 500 unidentified persons who were in the procession, and who tried to communalise the atmosphere.