The Thane police on Thursday said they have registered an FIR against controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati on a complaint alleging he has hurt the religious feelings of a community with his comments on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

Saraswati, head of the Dasna Devi temple at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, was booked under IPC sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage reli­gious feelings of any class) and 505(2) (statements conducing public mischief) and also the IT Act, said the police.