13 individuals had been arrested after violence in Maharashtra’s Mira-Bhayandar on Sunday, a day forward of the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, The Hindu reported.
The conflict between members of two communities broke out round 11 pm on Sunday when a gaggle of males in automobiles drove by the Naya Nagar space shouting non secular slogans, The Hindu reported an unidentified senior police official as saying. The group was attacked by a mob from the neighbourhood, the police officer added.
The mob, armed with iron rods, sticks and cricket bats, shouted non secular slogans and assaulted a person inside one of many automobiles, PTI reported citing the police grievance.
Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who can also be the state’s house minister, stated that the police have been instructed to take strictest motion towards the culprits, reported The Indian Specific.
“13 people have been arrested to this point and detailed evaluation of CCTV footage is underway to determine and arrest others concerned,” Fadnavis stated. “Regulation and order is the very best precedence and concern of the state authorities. There will likely be zero tolerance towards anybody who tries to take the regulation into their very own fingers and makes an attempt to disturb the regulation and order state of affairs in Maharashtra.”
The Ram temple in Ayodhya was inaugurated on Monday in a ceremony led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The prime minister carried out the rituals to consecrate the Ram idol within the sanctum sanctorum together with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat, Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, Chief Minister Adityanath and the chief priest of the temple.
The temple in Ayodhya is being constructed on the positioning of the Babri mosque, which was demolished by Hindutva extremists on December 6, 1992, as a result of they believed that it stood on the spot on which the deity Ram had been born. The incident had triggered communal riots throughout the nation.
