India, Sept. 7 -- After the political storm broke out over the defacement of the Ashoka Emblem, inscribed on the inaugural stone plaque installed inside the revered Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar on Friday, the Union Territory Administration has decided to launch a massive crackdown against the worshippers involved in it by registering First Information Report (FIR).
A case under FIR number 76 of 2025 has been registered at Nigeen police station into the incident at Hazratbal in which the national emblem was damaged, officials said.
The case has been registered under Sections 300 (voluntarily disturbing an assembly lawfully performing religious worship or ceremonies), 352 (addresses intentional insults intended to provoke a breach of the pe...