Mangaluru Police on Wednesday arrested a man for the desecration of a Hindu shrine. The accused had placed used condoms in front of the Koragajja shrine at Marnamikatte, Mangaluru in Karnataka.
The accused has been identified as Devdas Desayi, a native of Hubballi in Karnataka. The accused has confessed to desecrating seventeen other places of worship, including a mosque in Ullal and a Gurudwara in Bengre Kulur.
Desayi claimed that he placed used condoms and pamphlets containing articles on Jesus at these religious places. Reports suggest that Devdas Desayi’s father John Desayi had converted to Christianity, and that Devdas too is a fervent Christian who used to often pray at his house.
The police traced Desayi using CCTV footage at the scene of the crime.
In his confession to the police, Devdas said, “I used to put unclean offerings at unclean shrines because Bible says that God has pushed bad spirits out of this world and if one has to find salvation during the end of the world, people have to venerate Jesus. I do not regret what I have done.”
Mangaluru Police Commissioner N Shashi Kumar has ruled out the possibility of the accused being mentally unstable. He said that the accused was very accurate about the offences he had committed and where he had committed them.
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