At least twelve Muslims were injured and nine of them were hospitalized in Sayaji hospital after Sunni-Tablighi clash occurred in Vadodara’s Padra area on Thursday.

According to police, Tablighi and Sunni – two sects of Muslim community clashed over a dispute about Ijtema convention of Tablighi Jamat that was organized in Vadu village this weekend.

Padra area’s Govindpura police chowki was ransacked by Sunni Muslims after police protected a Tablighi jamat loading rickshaw driver Mehbub Mansuri to save him from Sunni crowd on rampage.

According to DySP S.P.Damor, a complaint has been lodged by Mehbub Mansuri against rioting crowd of 150 Sunni Muslims.

Those injured and hospitalized are: Anas Ali Patel, Shakil Suleman Mansuri, Mohammad Suleman Mansuri, Mubarak Rasul Mansuri, Tosif Abdul Mansuri, Tofic Salim Mansuri, Sabir Hussain Mohammad Mansuri and Yunus Mohammad Hakim.

Meanwhile, police officials have decided not to give permission of organizing Ijtema in Vadu. In Padra taluka, Sunni community forms 90% Muslim population while Tablighis are just 10%. Earlier Tablighi jamat had organized similar convention in Padra taluka’s Bhadari village but Sunni Muslims in Aanti village, just two km away from Bhadari had opposed this convention. Police therefore had denied permission to Bhadari convention.