India, April 26 -- YouTuber Gautam Khattar was brought to Goa on Sunday on transit remand following his arrest in Himachal Pradesh in connection with a case over his alleged offensive remarks against St Francis Xavier, the patron saint of the coastal state, officials said.

Goa Police booked Khattar after he allegedly referred to the 16th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary as a "terrorist" during Sanatan Dharm Raksha Samiti's Parshuram Jayanti celebrations in Vasco da Gama, Goa, HT earlier reported.

He also allegedly made derogatory remarks about the saint's remains kept in a casket revered as sacred relics.

Khattar, founder of an outfit named Sanatan Mahasangh, was arrested in Kullu district on Friday after days of search in connection ...