Chaddars offered at two shrines burned; Kalol Police file complaint

Gandhinagar: The police have filed a complaint against unknown individuals after a volunteer, who serves at two shrines in Kalol, alleged that the cloth sheets and flower sheets offered at the shrines were burned.

The volunteer, Nasir Pathan, works as a painter and volunteers at the Gazikhan Bawa shrine in Pansar village and the Rustampir shrine near the railway station. Pathan was informed by a devotee that the sheets at the shrines had been burned. He believes that the incident occurred between Friday night and Saturday night when unidentified individuals entered the shrines and set fire to the sheets.

The Kalol taluka police have registered a complaint under Section 295 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which pertains to injuring or defiling a place of worship with the intention to insult any religious group. An investigation is currently underway, including a review of CCTV footage, but no arrests have been made thus far.