More than 10 individuals, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police and a columnist, were harmed amid communal conflicts at Gangavathi ...
More than 10 individuals, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police and a columnist, were harmed amid communal conflicts at Gangavathi town in Koppal area on Sunday.
Two autorickshaws, the same number of goods vehicles and a bike were crushed after miscreants set them ablaze. The police clasped prohibitory order in the town taking after the savagery. Extra police force have been sent and circumstance keeps on being tense, the police said.
DySP S M Sandigwad, TV reporter Venkatesh Hosalli and a nearby Muslim leader Yusuf Qadri were among the harmed.
The condition of Hosalli and Shivakumar and K Pampapathi, who were likewise harmed in the savagery, is said to be serious.
The brutality broke out over tying a few flags on a couple houses at Gundamma camp on the event of Hanuman Jayanthi and Eid-e-Milad. Circumstance turned tense as adolescents from the two groups had a contention.
A couple of minutes after the fact, a couple of men, who had covered their faces, tossed stones at a masjid at Alfia Circle and ran away.
As the news of stone-tossing spread, individuals from the Muslim group held a meeting at a mosque. In the interim, a few young people assaulted the Yajnavalkya temple and whipped a couple of devotees, the police said.
Taking after the assault on the people in temple, a gathering of young people wielding deadly weapons stoned the living arrangement of nearby MLA Iqbal Ansari's PA S M Qadri.
Later, young people from muslim community set a tire ablaze in front the police headquarters and arranged a protest, looking for legal action against the assailants. A gathering of Hindu young people additionally smoldered a tire at Pampa Circle, seeking action against the individuals who had assaulted the devotees in temple.
Koppal Superintendent of Police Thyagarajan raced to spot and was checking the circumstance when the reports last came in.
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