Nashik, Feb. 26 -- The Maharashtra Police on Wednesday, February 25, booked seven individuals for offering namaz in the Electricity Department office at the Malegaon Municipal Corporation.

A municipal corporation employee, Mahendra Raghunath Sawant, aged 43 years, registered a first information report (FIR).

According to the FIR, shared by former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Kirit Somaiya on X, the individuals were booked under sections 132 (criminal force against public servant), 292 (public nuisance), 189 (unlawful assembly of more than five persons), and 190 (joint liability of the unlawful assembly) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

The FIR was registered under sections of the Maharashtra Police Act as well.

The complainant...