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PANAJI: Goa Police have booked a resident of Assagao for allegedly "outraging religious feelings " after he entered a temple wearing shoes.

According to the complaint lodged by Umesh Tanksalli at the Anjuna police station , on Friday, at around 8.40pm, a person criminally trespassed into the Shri Somnath Devasthan , Assagao. He said the accused was wearing shoes, thereby outraging the religious feelings of devotees.

The complainant stated that the accused also hit him, causing simple injury and further, threatened him and the others with dire consequences.

A case has been registered under Sections 448 (trespass), 295-A (deliberate and malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings of any class), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506(ii) (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.

