State Official Held ‘Hostage’ By Angry Priests, Locals At Kedarnath Dham
New Delhi: Angry priests held a senior civil servant – Arvind Pandey, the Secretary of the State Information Commission – hostage for two-and-a-half hours in Uttarakhand’s temple town of Kedarnath, amid protests over the demolition of buildings and roadside shops owned and operated by priests. Mr Pandey was reportedly locked into a room at a…