Overview
- Gautam Khattar, detained in Kullu on Friday, will be taken to Goa by a Crime Branch team for further questioning.
- A Vasco court issued a non-bailable warrant on Thursday after he ignored a police notice to appear in the case.
- Goa Police had issued a Look Out Circular to the Bureau of Immigration and sent teams to multiple cities to stop any attempt to leave India.
- His brother, Madhav Khattar, was arrested in Haridwar on Wednesday as a co-accused after police said he drafted the speech, recorded it and circulated the video.
- The remarks were made at an April 18 event in Vasco and targeted a patron saint whose relics are kept at Old Goa’s Basilica of Bom Jesus, drawing complaints across Goa, street protests and scrutiny of the event organisers.