14 arrested in Varanasi for eating chicken biryani on boat in Ganga sent to judicial custody

VARANASI (UP): (Mar 20) A Varanasi court has sent 14 people, who had allegedly hosted an Iftar party and eaten chicken biryani on a boat in Ganga river, to judicial custody, an advocate in the case said on Friday.

Additional Civil Judge (Sr.Div.)/ACJM Amit Kumar Yadav on Thursday sent all the accused to the 14-day judicial custody after rejecting the bail applications of the accused.

According to advocate Shashank Shekhar Tripathi, representing complainant Rajat Jaiswal, the accused had threatened a boatman and forcibly taken him along before holding the party on his boat in the river.