INDIA
Business Standard
Press Trust of India
The chief priest Keshavan Namboodiri of the famous Badrinath shrine was arrested for allegedly confining and molesting a woman in a city hotel here and sent today to 14 days of judicial custody by a Delhi court.
According to police, the incident took place yesterday at around 4:30 PM when a 28-year-old woman had gone to meet him at the hotel where he allegedly tried to outrage her modesty.
Besides Namboodiri, one of his associates Vishnu Prasad was arrested from the spot yesterday and were produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Shreya Arora Mehta who remanded them to judicial custody till February 18 after the police did not seek their custodial interrogation.
The police also told the court that the two were drunk at the time of arrest.
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