{"id":201943,"date":"2026-05-31T14:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=201943"},"modified":"2026-05-31T14:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:05:59","slug":"elderly-muslim-man-booked-for-criticising-yogi-modi-in-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/05\/31\/elderly-muslim-man-booked-for-criticising-yogi-modi-in-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Muslim man booked for criticising Yogi, Modi in UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-201944\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/434948_7741987_updates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/434948_7741987_updates.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/05\/434948_7741987_updates-385x220.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meerut: Indian police in Uttar Pradesh arrested a 70-year-old Muslim man named Ehsaan within 24 hours after a video of him criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath went viral.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Ehsaan made the remarks during an interview with a local channel after Eid al-Adha prayers on May 28. He condemned certain BJP policies, called Yogi Adityanath a \u201cgunda\u201d, and objected to appeals for singing the slogan \u201cVande Mataram\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested him on May 29. A video later released by police showed the elderly man limping and holding his ears in a gesture of apology.<\/p>\n<p>The incident triggered online debate after it was contrasted with another case in Meerut the same day, where a youth named Puneet falsely claimed that meat was thrown outside his house.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage later revealed he had placed the bag himself, yet he was only given a warning by police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meerut: Indian police in Uttar Pradesh arrested a 70-year-old Muslim man named Ehsaan within 24 hours after a video of him criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath went viral. According to Kashmir Media Service, Ehsaan made the remarks during an interview with a local channel after Eid al-Adha prayers on May &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201943","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\/05\/434948_7741987_updates.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201943","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=201943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201945,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201943\/revisions\/201945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}