Varanasi, June 24 -- Five people have been arrested for allegedly cooking non-vegetarian food on a boat in the middle of the Ganga under the Dashashwamedh police station area, police said on Tuesday. The action was taken after a video showing a group of people cooking and partying on a boat in the river surfaced on social media on Monday evening. Assistant commissioner of police (Dashashwamedh) Atul Anjan Tripathi said the police immediately examined the video and launched an investigation. Following the verification, police arrested five people seen in the footage and seized the boat used during the gathering. The arrested individuals have been identified as Deepak Kumar ,25, Ajay Sahni ,20, Arun Kumar ,22, Anurag Nishad ,31, and Rahul Sahni ,28. Police said legal action is being taken against the accused. Officials added that surveillance on the Ganga. The incident comes months after a similar controversy in Varanasi, when 14 people were arrested on March 17 after a video allegedly showed them consuming biryani on a boat in the Ganga. Police registered a case after complaints that the act hurt religious sentiments. The arrests followed a viral video of the gathering....