Daijiworld Media Network (SR)

Trichy, Jun 10: A 28-year old man named Mujibur Rahman was arrested on Saturday by Tamil Nadu police for posting obscene pictures of himself with ancient sculptures of women, at one of the largest South Indian temples, Thanjavur Brihadeeswara temple, that is a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The police officials said they arrested Rahman after receiving a large number of complaints from heritage enthusiasts and activists regarding the obscene selfies, posted on Facebook, of him vulgarly kissing, hugging and touching some female idols and sculptures at one of India’s greatest and oldest temples.

According to Trichy police, Rahman hails from Othakkadai area of Madurai and works as a food delivery boy in Trichy. “He went to the nearby ancient town of Thanjavur on Wednesday as part of Eid celebration and visited King Raja Raja Chola built Brahideeswara Temple -better known as ‘the big temple’, there he took the controversial pictures with the women sculptures,” said the police.

In his Facebook post, Rahman also put in a comment suggesting that the sculptures should be covered in ‘shawls’. This comes in the backdrop of Tamil Nadu government's order that it’s women staff must compulsorily wear shawls when wearing ‘Chudidaar’.

The police have registered case against Rahman under IPC section 295 for injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class and 295 A- deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage reli¬gious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or reli¬gious beliefs.