{"id":182347,"date":"2025-08-29T14:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=182347"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:37:37","slug":"priest-narsinghanand-faces-fir-in-maharashtra-over-blasphemous-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/08\/29\/priest-narsinghanand-faces-fir-in-maharashtra-over-blasphemous-remarks.html","title":{"rendered":"Priest Narsinghanand faces FIR in Maharashtra over blasphemous Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182349\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assets\/2025\/08\/deccanherald_import_sites_dh_files_articleimages_2022_04_08_yati-narsinghanand-pti-1098833-1649416576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: Controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand, the Mahant of Dasna Devi Temple in Uttar Pradesh, is once again at the centre of controversy following a recent FIR filed against him in Maharashtra for making offensive remarks against Prophet Muhammad (SAW).<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the complaint was lodged by the head of the Social Democratic Party of India at the Mumbra Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FIR, Narsinghanand made derogatory comments about the Prophet during a programme held at Hindi Bhavan in Ghaziabad on September 29 last year. The remarks reportedly sparked outrage within the Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>The FIR cites charges of attempting to create discord in society, promoting pre-existing enmity, and deliberately undermining social unity. Local authorities in Mumbra have registered the case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code to ensure communal harmony is protected.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Narsinghanand has drawn attention for offensive remarks against Islam and Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, he was arrested after inflammatory comments led to widespread protests from the Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>Despite previous arrests and warnings, Narsinghanand has reportedly continued to make provocative statements. Muslim leaders have repeatedly condemned his remarks and urged law enforcement authorities to take firm action to prevent further communal tension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand, the Mahant of Dasna Devi Temple in Uttar Pradesh, is once again at the centre of controversy following a recent FIR filed against him in Maharashtra for making offensive remarks against Prophet Muhammad (SAW). According to Kashmir Media Service, the complaint was lodged by the head of the Social &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}