{"id":198802,"date":"2026-04-21T21:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=198802"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:15:53","slug":"police-arrest-muslim-man-for-offering-prayer-by-roadside-in-uttar-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/04\/21\/police-arrest-muslim-man-for-offering-prayer-by-roadside-in-uttar-pradesh.html","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest Muslim man for offering prayer by roadside in Uttar Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow: Police in India\u2019s BJP-ruled state of Uttar Pradesh have arrested a Muslim youth for offering prayer by the roadside.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the youth was detained in Rampur district after he was seen offering prayer at a crossroads near Shahabad Gate. Following his arrest, he was produced before a court, which sent him to jail. A video of the youth offering prayer has also gone viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The family of the detained youth said that he is mentally challenged.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hindutva Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, known for his anti-Muslim rhetoric, stated that offering prayers on roads is not allowed in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow: Police in India\u2019s BJP-ruled state of Uttar Pradesh have arrested a Muslim youth for offering prayer by the roadside. According to Kashmir Media Service, the youth was detained in Rampur district after he was seen offering prayer at a crossroads near Shahabad Gate. Following his arrest, he was produced before a court, which sent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/04\/arrest1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198802","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=198802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198803,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198802\/revisions\/198803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}