VARANASI, March 23 -- A court in Varanasi on Monday rejected a plea, seeking bail to 14 youths, accused of throwing leftovers of chicken biryani in the Ganga, a few days ago.

The bail plea was filed in court number nine of additional chief judicial magistrate Amit Kumar Yadav.

The accused are in judicial custody in the district jail since March 19, said the counsel for the accused.

The counsel for the accused briefly argued that the applicants/accused have been framed in a conspiracy based on a grudge merely to harass their family, and added that the accused are innocent and law-abiding citizens.

He added, the accused have been in judicial custody in the District Jail since March 19. The video released against the accused also contain...