{"id":196483,"date":"2026-03-11T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=196483"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:32:38","slug":"meat-eating-priest-assaulted-expelled-in-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/03\/11\/meat-eating-priest-assaulted-expelled-in-up.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Meat-eating priest&#8217; assaulted, expelled in UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: In a shocking case of violation of personal freedom in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a priest was expelled from his temple duties and assaulted by a Hindutva mob after a photo of him eating non-vegetarian food went viral.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Prashant Giri, also known as Golu Pandit, was dragged out of the Baba Shri Bhuteshwar Dham Temple and beaten by a group of people, including Rahul Chandel, Manish Chaudhary, and Ajay Chauhan, who accused him of violating religious traditions.<\/p>\n<p>The priest&#8217;s father, Santosh Giri, the chief priest of the temple, disowned his son, saying, &#8220;I am the mahant of the temple, not my son. As soon as I came to know that he had eaten non-vegetarian food, I expelled him from service at the temple.&#8221; Many has questioned the mob&#8217;s actions and the priest&#8217;s father&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; New Delhi: In a shocking case of violation of personal freedom in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a priest was expelled from his temple duties and assaulted by a Hindutva mob after a photo of him eating non-vegetarian food went viral. According to Kashmir Media Service, Prashant Giri, also known as Golu Pandit, was dragged out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196483","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196484,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196483\/revisions\/196484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}