A day after 4 cops have been injured in a mob assault on a police station in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur, district authorities on Thursday bulldozed the house of a Muslim man who has been accused of involvement within the violence, reported The Hindu.
The mob assault reportedly occurred when a big crowd was stopped from coming into the police station to file a grievance in opposition to a Hindu spiritual chief named Ramgiri Maharaj.
The person whose residence was demolished on Thursday has been recognized as Haji Shehzad Ali.
Superintendent of Police (Metropolis) Aman Mishra informed The Hindu that greater than 100 places had been raided and over 50 suspects detained in reference to the mob assault on the Kotwali police station. Superintendent of Police Agam Jain stated 150 individuals have been booked within the case.
The gang was protesting allegedly inflammatory remarks that Ramgiri made in opposition to Prophet Mohammad and the Muslim religion whereas talking at a seven-day-long occasion in Nashik’s Sinnar taluka final week.
A clip of the spiritual chief making the remarks was extensively circulated on-line this week.
“Members of a selected neighborhood got here to present a memorandum on the Kotwali police station,” Jain stated in a press release. “They have been assured that point however some miscreants turned to stone-pelting which was introduced underneath management by the police.”
Movies of the incident present the police firing tear fuel shells to disperse the mob, reported The Hindu.
Ramgiri is reportedly dealing with a number of police complaints in Maharashtra, together with in Thane and Pune districts, for allegedly inflammatory speech.
Amongst different expenses, the spiritual chief has been booked for uttering phrases with intent to wound spiritual emotions, underneath Part 302 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and provocation with intent to trigger riot underneath Part 192.
