A BJP youth wing leader was arrested for allegedly making inflammatory comments on Prophet Muhammad on social media platform. Former district secretary of the BJP Yuva Morcha Harshit Srivastava was arrested on Tuesday night for trying to vitiate the atmosphere through his posts, ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said. Police have registered a case against Srivastava at Colonelganj police station.

The BJP youth wing leader was booked under sections 153 A (punishment for indulging in wanton vilification or attacks upon the religion, race, place of birth, residence, language etc of any particular group or class or upon the founders and prophets of a religion), 295 A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) of the IPC and section 67 of the Information Technology Act.