In West Bengal, seventy-eight VHP and Bajrang Dal workers were arrested on Thursday. They were booked while they were demonstrating near the office of a vernacular newspaper in Kolkata against the alleged derogatory depiction of a Hindu Goddess in one of its magazines.
A few hundred workers of VHP and Bajrang Dal gathered near Chandni Chowk Metro station and tried to protest in front of the newspaper office. They raised slogans and tried to gherao the office where heavy police force was already deployed. From the spot, 62 men and 16 women were arrested, reported Indian Express.
Those arrested included VHP state vice-president Chandranath Das, Dharma Prachar Pramukh Dulal Chandra Das and VHP media in charge Sourish Mukherjee. They were taken to Lalbazar and later released on bail.
