India, Sept. 30 -- The Uttarakhand Police on Tuesday booked 400 unidentified people for rioting, promoting enmity, chanting religious slogans, and attacking police personnel during a protest over an objectionable social media post against Prophet Muhammad in Dehradun's Chowki Bazar on Monday evening.

The FIR was lodged at Patel Nagar police station under sections 121(2) (voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter a public servant), 126(2) (wrongful restraint), 190 (offence by unlawful assembly), 191(2) (rioting), 196 (promoting enmity), and 302 (deliberate intent to wound religious feelings) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), based on a complaint by ISBT station in-charge sub-inspector Harsh Arora.

The police arrested Gulshan Rathore...