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.
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.
Khattar, founder of an outfit named Sanatan Mahasangh, was arrested in Kullu district on Friday after days of search in connection with the case registered earlier this week.
A Crime Branch team brought the accused to Goa, arriving by flight on Sunday afternoon.
