Overview
- Khattar, brought to Goa on transit remand Sunday, was ordered into six days of police custody by a Vasco magistrate.
- He was detained in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district Friday after Goa Police shared location inputs, then flown to Goa for further questioning.
- Goa Police booked him under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provisions for promoting enmity and outraging religious feelings after a video of his April 18 Vasco speech went viral.
- Investigators say his brother, Madhav Khattar, is a co-accused who prepared the remarks, recorded and posted the video, and arranged travel and a Rs 51,000 payment.
- The Archdiocese condemned the comments, protestors demanded arrests, and organisers apologized, reflecting the sensitivity around the saint’s relics kept at Old Goa’s Basilica of Bom Jesus.