Odisha Police detained a British national for entering the Jagannath Temple in Puri and assaulting cops deployed inside the shrine, an officer said on Sunday.
The foreign visitor, identified by the police as Thomas Craig Sheldon from Wandsworth in south London, entered the 12th-century shrine on Saturday without permission.
Thomas allegedly attacked the police officers when they stopped him and asked him to leave the temple grounds because non-Hindus are not permitted entry into the temple, according to reports.
“We have detained the foreign tourist and further investigation is going on,” said Prasant Kumar Sahu, City DSP, Puri.
The incident occurred just a week after a woman from Poland was detained and later released for entering the temple on March 23. Prior to that, a few Bangladeshi nationals had been caught while entering the temple on March 3 and later released.
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