Mathura A district court on Tuesday rejected the bail pleas of the two Muslim activists for communal harmony who had offered namaz at a temple in Mathura last month. The police had arrested Faisal Khan, a well-known member of the Khudai Khidmatgar – the social organisation formed before independence by Khan Adbul Ghaffar Khan, commonly known as ‘Frontier Gandhi’ – and booked three others after a video clip showing two of them offering namaz attracted objections from Hindutva activists on social media.The other men accused are Chand Mohammad, Alok Ratan and Neelesh Gupta.According to the FIR, the accused came to Mathura’s Nand Baba temple temple on October 29th, where two of them offered namaz.Soon after Khan’s arrest, the Khudai Khidmatgar released a statement explaining the context for the namaz:“On the last day of his pilgrimage, Faisal Khan visited the holy temple of Nand Baba. He paid his obeisance there… That was the time of his afternoon prayers, so he asked for a suitable place. The people who were there in the temple allowed him to offer prayers in the temple compound itself by saying that you are already in the home of God so why you need to go anywhere else. Hearing it, Faisal Khan completed his prayers.”The bail pleas were moved by Khan and Chand Mohammad. While khan is lodged in the jail, Chand Mohammad is yet to be arrested. He had applied for an anticipatory bail.District Government Counsel (Crime), Shiv Ram Singh, said the court of additional district judge-II, Mahendra Nath, rejected the bail pleas of Faisal Khan and Chand Mohammad. PTI quotes him as saying that the accused “failed to give a convincing explanation of their claim of being members of the Khudai Khidmatgar.”Singh also told PTI that Faizal Khan could not give a convincing reply about the Rs 6.5 lakh kept in his account. “It is apprehended that the amount is part of funding from some foreign agency, he said.”Meanwhile, the counsel for the accused, Madhuban Datt Chaturvedi, said, “We did our best but could not convince the court.” He said they will move the Allahabad High Court for bail.(With inputs from PTI)