New Delhi: The Ghaziabad police will reportedly be recommending detention of a local Samajwadi Party worker under the National Security Act (NSA) over a case related to the assault on an elderly Muslim man, PTI reported on Monday June 28.The worker, Ummaid Pehelwan Idrisi, was arrested from Delhi on June 19 by the Ghaziabad police after an FIR was lodged against him at the Loni Border police station.Idrisi had appeared in a Facebook live video with Abdul Samad Saifi, the elderly man who was recently assaulted. The FIR, filed on the complaint of a local policeman, alleged that Idrisi had “unnecessarily” made the video.While the Uttar Pradesh police has claimed that there was no communal angle to the attack, Saifi’s family told The Wire that he was subjected to slurs during the violence and had detailed this in his police complaint.Once booked under the stringent NSA, an accused can be detained in jail for a period of one year, subject to review by a high court every three months.“We are in the process of recommending (to the Uttar Pradesh government) the NSA against him. The formalities would be completed today,” Senior Superintendent of Police Amit Pathak reportedly told PTI on Monday.Idrisi was booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 153A (promoting enmity between groups on ground of religion, class etc), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious belief), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505 (public mischief).A separate FIR was lodged against him on June 17 in adjoining Bulandshahr district, the native place of Saifi, that charged him and around 100 others with violation of the COVID-19 norms by holding a public gathering in connection with the attack on Saifi on June 16, police reportedly told PTI.Uttar Pradesh police had filed an FIR against The Wire, Twitter, three journalists and three Congress politicians who tweeted about Saifi’s version of events for conspiring to create communal disharmony.(With PTI inputs)