Pastor manhandling not communal: Ghaziabad cops

Three people — a photo studio operator Arun Kumar,one “Mr Sharma” and a minor — were named in the FIR. The accused,too,registered a counter-FIR,Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police Raghubir Lal said.

“Just because the victims and accused belong to different communities does not mean the incident was communal,though both the victim and the accused tried to give a communal flavour to it,” he said.

Sahibabad Station House Officer Suraj Pal said,“Preliminary probe found the locals had objected to late-night prayers as it disturbed them. The argument got out of hand after their vehicles collided.”