{"id":8867,"date":"2016-06-26T16:39:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=8864&amp;preview_id=8864"},"modified":"2016-06-26T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:39:33","slug":"man-damages-temple-idol-after-wife-doesnt-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=8867","title":{"rendered":"Man damages temple idol after wife doesn\u2019t return home &#8211; The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"body\">A 37-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly damaged an idol of Lord Hanuman at a temple in Palda area here, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Manoj Banjara (37) was arrested for damaging the idol at the ancient Khedapati Hanuman temple here, City Superintendent of Police Shashikant Kankane said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\u201cBanjara is not in the right frame of mind. His wife had gone to her parents\u2019 home following a tiff about four months back. According to Banjara, when he did not succeed in bringing his wife back despite all efforts, he then prayed to Lord Hanuman seeking some miracle that she may come back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\u201cAs per Banjara, when his wife did not return despite all his prayers, he broke the Lord Hanuman\u2019s idol in anger last night,\u201d the SP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Manoj has been arrested and booked, he said, adding that further investigation in the matter is on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Meanwhile, RSS\u2019s Dharm Jagran Vibhag local unit convenor Vinod Mishra expressed dissatisfaction over police action and demanded a high-level probe into the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">He alleged that that police arrested Manoj in order to save their skin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">The idol damage incident sparked tension in Palda area in view of which police force was deployed there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Members of some right wing organisations flocked the temple this morning demanding strict police action in the case immediately.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/man-damages-temple-idol-after-wife-doesnt-return-home\/article8775774.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Man damages temple idol after wife doesn\u2019t return home \u2013 The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 37-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly damaged an idol of Lord Hanuman at a temple in Palda area here, police said. Manoj Banjara (37) was arrested for damaging the idol at the ancient Khedapati Hanuman temple here, City Superintendent of Police Shashikant Kankane said. \u201cBanjara is not in the right frame [&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":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867"}],"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=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}