Kerala Cyber Warriors hack Hindu Mahasabha website for recreating assassination of Gandhi

On the 71st death anniversary of  Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Nation, the Hindu attire Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha were caught on video carrying out a recreation of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. Reacting on recreation of assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the website of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha was hacked, as of 3.45 pm on Thursday, showing  a black screen with the logo of Kerala Cyber Warriors and a message that stated that the website was hacked by ‘GH057_R007.

Protest is escalating against Hindu Mahasabha across the country and a day after their graceless act, which sent shockwaves across the country, the Uttar Pradesh Police have booked 13 people including some leaders of the extreme group in connection with the incident. “The incident took place in a house in Naurangabad locality of Aligarh. Later, the video of the event went viral on social media,” Senior Superintendent of Police of Aligarh Akash Kulhary told PTI.

The abhorrent act on Wednesday, the video of which went viral showed a group of Hindu Mahasabha activists firing at an effigy of the Mahatma while venerating Nathuram Godse, the Hindu Mahasabha man who killed the Father of the Nation in 1948. To make the event even more reactive, they had fake blood oozing out of the effigy after it was fired at.   

The bizarre drama was led by Pooja Shakun Pandey, a top leader of the Hindu attire which was founded by Savarkar. Pandey who was last year appointed as the first judge of the first 'shariya-style' Hindu Court in Meerut said she was starting a tradition of recreating Gandhi’s assassination every year on 30th January. Pandey had earlier courted controversy by saying that if she was born before Nathuram Godse, she would have killed Mahatma Gandhi, because "he was responsible for the murder of Hindus during partition".

The Hindu Mahasava website was hacked a day after it's Secretary Pooja Shakun Pandey was caught on camera ‘shooting’ at an effigy of Mahatma Gandhi with an air pistol. 

According to a report in a national television, the Mahasabha leader then told the reporters that this was a new ‘annual tradition just like the burning of Raavan on Dussehra’ that they had just begun by ‘recreating’ the assassination.

The video had triggered massive outrage with people questioning the glorification of Gandhi’s assassination and calling for action against those seen in the video.   

A case has been registered under various sections of IPC against eight people and four unknown, and arrests are to be made soon, a police official reported.

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