Hindutva goons set fire to a Muslim shrine in Haryana state in India. A group of charged men set afire the shrine in Gurugram’s Khandsa village.
The caretaker of the shrine, visited by both Muslims and Hindus, said some prayer material was burnt in the fire before it was brought under control by local people, police said.
“This is a decades-old mazar of ‘peer baba’ and all villagers offer prayers here.” He suspected some outsiders were involved in starting the fire inside the shrine.
The incident happened when prohibitory orders under section 144 were still in force in Gurugram in view of the communal clashes that began in the neighbouring Nuh district and spread to parts of the city and nearby areas last week. The Gurugram district administration lifted section 144 on Monday.
This incident occurred while Section 144 was in effect in Gurugram, a measure put in place due to communal clashes originating from the Nuh district and spreading to various parts of the city and nearby regions in the previous week.—KMS
