Srinagar, Sept. 7 -- As the J&K Police have filed a case for alleged defacement of national emblem inside the Hazratbal Shrine, J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah has questioned as to why the national emblem was used at a religious place and sought an apology from Waqf Board chairperson and senior BJP leader Darakhshan Andrabi for playing with the "sentiments of the people".

On Friday after devotees "defaced" the emblem on the inauguration stone terming it "unislamic", the Waqf chairperson had labelled the protesters as "terrorists" and sought registration of FIR against them and demanded they should be booked under the Public Safety Act.

A large number of devotees who had come to the Dargah on Friday protested and used stones to remove t...