Pune, Jun 11 (FP) : The Pune police on Tuesday arrested Hindu Rashtra Sena president Dhananjay Desai in connection with the murder of Muslim techie Mohsin Sadiq Shaikh, 28, in Pune on June 2. Desai had been arrested by the Pune Cantonment police and the Loni Kalbhor police station previously for circulating inflammatory material in March.
According to a report in The Times of India, senior police officials said the 17 arrested suspects indicated that Desai had instigated them "to launch a series of violent protests after objectionable posts were put up on a social media site".
Desai had been arrested on June 2 for disseminating inflammatory material. the murder took place later the same day. Desai has now been arrested under Section 120 (b) — (criminal conspiracy) read with Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. referred to as Bhai by his followers. Dhananjay Desai appears to have started this group when he was just 14 years old.
Interestingly Desai was also invited for a Hindu Rashtra Convention in Goa in 2013. The section of talks for which he was invited dealt with 'Retaliating the attack of Islam', and he spoke on "Increasing Jihadi mentality among the Muslims and Safety measure".