NEW DELHI, Dec. 26 -- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj, Sanjeev Jha, and Adil Ahmed Khan were booked on Thursday for hurting religious sentiments over a video of a skit mocking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Delhi government over air pollution that they performed in Connaught Place last week. In it, a man dressed as Santa Claus, wearing a gas mask, faints after he hears the city's air quality index (AQI).

A first information report (FIR) was filed on the basis of a complaint by a Khushboo George, an advocate. It said that the actions have "deeply wounded the religious sentiments of the Christian community and threaten communal harmony in the national capital".

Reacting to the development on Thursday, Bharadwaj, in a...