INDIA
Zee News

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday extended till March 3 the judicial custody of the chief priest of Badrinath shrine in Uttarakhand, Keshavan Namboodiri, who has been arrested for allegedly confining and molesting a woman in a hotel here.

Namboodiri and one of his associates Vishnu Prasad, also co-accused in the case, were produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Shreya Arora Mehta who remanded them in judicial custody till March 3 after police did not seek their custodial interrogation.

The two were produced before the court after expiry of their earlier 14 days of remand.

According to police, the incident took place on February 3 when the 28-year-old woman had gone to meet Namboodiri at the hotel.