UJJAIN: Police arrested a self-styled ‘Aghori’ on Tuesday for allegedly trespassing at a cremation floor and disturbing funeral rites after a video purportedly displaying the accused consuming human flesh from a burning pyre went viral on social media.The accused, Kali alias Nand Giri, who claims to be a Mahamandaleshwar of the Kinnar Akhara, was arrested following a grievance by the Senapati Kaal Bhairav Committee at Jeevajiganj police station.Police stated the video, allegedly filmed on the Chakratirth cremation floor below the Ujjain Municipal Company limits, surfaced on Instagram and was broadly shared on Monday. Within the purported footage, the accused is seen standing close to a burning pyre with a sword and allegedly consuming flesh from it.Station in-charge Prateek Sharma stated the video got here to the discover of police after it went viral. Investigators alleged that Kali alias Nand Giri had filmed the incident and uploaded it on her social media account.Police registered a case below Part 301 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, regarding trespass on burial locations and providing indignity to human stays, and Part 25 of the Arms Act.Metropolis Superintendent of Police Pushpa Prajapati stated the accused was produced earlier than a first-class judicial Justice of the Peace after her arrest.Mahamandaleshwar Shaileshanand Giri of the Juna Akhara condemned the incident, saying such acts couldn’t be tolerated in a civilised society.
