The Uttarakhand Police on Thursday arrested four persons on charges of vandalism amd arson at the residence of former Union Minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid in Nainital. The accused were arrested on the basis of a viral video. “The arrested accused has been identified as Chandan Singh Lodial, Umesh Mehta, Krishna Singh Bisht and Rajkumar Mehta. Illegal pistol and magazines have been recovered from their possession,” the police said. The house was vandalized and parts of it were also set on fire allegedly by mobs. This attack came a few days after his new book drew parallels between Hindutva and radical Islamist groups.