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Man cuts birthday cake with sword, arrested
The police action came after a video on social media showed youngster Sanskar Patel cutting a cake with a sword during a celebration at his home in Abbas Nagar the previous night.
LUCKNOW: Lucknow police on Wednesday arrested a 20-year-old man for brandishing a sword and using it to cut his birthday cake in public. While the cake was kept on the bonnet of a car, he and his friends reportedly celebrated by bursting firecrackers. The incident took place under the Nagram police limits of the Lucknow commissionerate.
The police action came after a video on social media showed youngster Sanskar Patel cutting a cake with a sword during a celebration at his home in Abbas Nagar the previous night. When they approached him, the cops found him making a similar video, but this time in public, according to a police statement. The sword used for cake-cutting was about three feet long. The cops were also looking for the vehicle’s owner on the basis of its registration number.
