Cow heads found, murtis in mandir vandalized in south Gujarat

Surat

An incident of vandalizing of murtis in Mohangadh area based Mohaneshwar Maharaj in Dharampur town of south Gujarat created tension here. A person who covered his face with handkerchief had broken the idols of Dwarpal, Jay and Vijay. An unidentified person also took away upper part of Trishul. The incident took place at 5.30 pm. Pujari of mandir Dinesh Rupasari has filed complaint in Dharampur police station.

In another incident, heads of butchered cow was found from Panihari river in Ambheta village near Bilimora. Husband of local sarpanch Vasantbhai informed Bilimora police about this. After court’s nod the head was buried.

In one more incident of communal tension, local Hindus found head of butchered cow and cow-skin at the venue of Ganesh murti immersion in Kaveri river near Chapaldhara village. A mob of around 3,000 persons attacked local mosque and houses of Muslims. Police had to lob 9 tear gas shells to control the mobs. arrested 16 persons for rioting who were later released on bail. 3 butchers are arrested following this incident. Among them are Shahel Ibrahim Kanvi, Muhammad Asif Yusuf Kanvi.Local court sent them to one-day police custody.

In recent past, similar incident of finding of butchered cow’s head had taken place in Junagadh city of Saurashtra region too. Local MLA had held sit protest against this.

Peace is prevailing at all places mentioned above at present.

– DeshGujarat