Hyderabad, June 26 -- The Uttar Pradesh police arrested five people for allegedly vandalising a statue of BR Ambedkar in Bareilly in the wee hours of Thursday, June 26.

The incident occurred in Gangapur village. CCTV captured the vandalism, showing the miscreants removing a garland from the statue and attacking it with sticks.

The footage went viral, prompting the Bareilly police to take action and arrest five people in this regard.

The five accused have been identified as - Vijay Kashyap, 23, Dharampal, 38, Parshuram, 27, Kuldeep, 30 and Praveen Kumar, 19.

A case has been registered under sections 191 (rioting), 298 (injuries or defiling places of worship), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 351 (2) (...