Ghaziabad, May 27 -- Three Muslim men have been arrested a day after Ghaziabad Mayor Sunita Dayal posted a video boldly claiming she "caught" two Muslim children attempting to throw remains of cow meat in a local river.

"Isi desh ka khayenge aur yahin gandagi karenge (they live off this country, yet they dirty it too)," the mayor said in a video shared on her personal Facebook account. Notably, the video failed to blur the faces of the minor children, an offence under the Juvenile Justice Act.

Dayal confirmed to The Wire that she saw the children while on a visit to the Hindon Barrage in Indirapuram, where the incident took place. "It was then that I saw those kids accompanied by two other people. Then we figured they (the minors) were ...