Varanasi, March 21 -- A few days after Varanasi police arrested several individuals after a video of them having an Iftar party in the middle of the Ganga river went viral, it has been alleged that the "party" was done "under someone's influence", Advocate Shashank Shekhar Tripathi has claimed.

Advocate Shashank Shekhar Tripathi, representing complainant Rajat Jaiswal, said, "First, they made a video of themselves having Iftar at Gangaji and posted it on social media. This hurt the sentiments of Hindus... Rajat Jaiswal filed a case against them, and they (the accused) were identified and arrested. After the arrest, they were confident that they would be easily released based on their actions. They were sent to jail. But when the police s...