Hindu organisations staged a protest over an alleged illegally constructed mosque in Mandi on Friday. As the crowd tried to bring down the line of barricades, police resorted to firing water cannon to disperse the crowd.
Commercial establishments were closed in many parts of the Himachal Pradesh capital on Thursday in support of protesters who have been demanding the demolition of illegal portions of a mosque in the densely populated Sanjauli area.
Fearing communal tension, the district administration had ensured heavy police deployment in Sanjauli, after failed talks with the representatives of the Hindu organizations on Tuesday to suspend the protest.
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ASI's lawyer Himanshu Joshi submitted the report, which is of about 2000 pages, in the registry of the High Court.
Elaborate police arrangements have been made to ensure peace on Eid-UlAzha in the city which falls on Monday.
A government employee was shot dead on Monday evening by terrorists outside a mosque in the Rajouri district of Jammu.
The mosque in question, known as the Mughal Mosque, is situated within the Qutub Complex but lies outside the Qutub enclosure.
Ritlal Yadav said, “Ramcharitmanas was written sitting in a mosque, but back then Hindutva was not in danger.”
A little-known Hindu outfit has urged an Agra court to order the excavation of the stairs of a mosque that stands on the Agra Fort premises, saying that there were idols of Lord Krishna buried under the structure that needed to be recovered.
