SP leader booked for calling UP CM Ajay Bisht

'AN FIR was registered in Varanasi against Samajwadi Party (SP) leader I P Singh for allegedly hurting religious sentiments by referring to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath by his old name, Ajay Singh Bisht, on Twitter. Singh was booked under section 67 (Punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act. The FIR was lodged late Monday evening at Shivpur police station in Varanasi... The complainant, Kamlesh Chandra Tripathi (49), a lawyer at the Varanasi Civil Court, claimed that Singh had hurt the feelings of ‘sants’ (seers) “The CM of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, is a saint and he has given up his family life and family name. After giving up his family life, he has become the head of the Gorakhnath temple. According to our traditions, if someone becomes a sanyasi, then he goes through ‘shraadh karm’. After the shraadh, the person has no connection with his old life,” said Tripathi...'