{"id":115654,"date":"2018-03-08T02:47:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=115654"},"modified":"2018-03-08T02:47:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:17:49","slug":"chennai-sacred-threads-10-people-cut-off-pro-periyar-men-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=115654","title":{"rendered":"Chennai: Sacred threads of 10 people cut off by \u2018pro-Periyar\u2019 men | The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacred threads of 10 people were cut off by a group of eight periyar supporters in Triplicane near Chennai on Wednesday morning, said police. A senior officer said the incident happened at around 7 am within the limits of Ice House police station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the 10 were either bare chested or were returning from a temple nearby. The men had raised slogans praising Periyar. Police teams are searching for the gang now,\u201d the officer said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident follows a statement by BJP national secretary H Raja on Tuesday wherein he threatened to destroy statues of Periyar in Tamil Nadu, like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/north-east-india\/tripura\/tripura-bjp-supporters-bulldoze-lenin-statue-5087372\/\">Lenin\u2019s in Tripura<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following his statement,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/hours-after-bjp-leader-h-rajas-post-periyar-statue-is-vandalised-in-tamil-nadu-5088704\/\">a Periyar statue was vandalised<\/a>\u00a0in Vellore on Tuesday night and petrol bombs were hurled at a BJP office in Coimbatore in the wee hours of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2018\/03\/triplicane-periyar-gang.jpg\" alt=\"Chennai periyar statue vandalised, chennai triplicane sacred threads cut\" width=\"680\" height=\"746\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of the ten accused that Chennai Police are on the lookout for.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacred threads of 10 people were cut off by a group of eight periyar supporters in Triplicane near Chennai on Wednesday morning, said police. A senior officer said the incident happened at around 7 am within the limits of Ice House police station. \u201cAll the 10 were either bare chested or were returning from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}