The Muslim neighborhood of Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi has requested the district administration and police to make sure peace amid a Hindu organisations’ name for a “mahapanchayat (grand meeting)” on December 1 towards a 5 decade-old mosque.
Members of the neighborhood on Saturday submitted a memorandum to district Justice of the Peace Meharban Singh Bisht and police superintendent Amit Srivastava searching for motion towards Hindu teams for allegedly spreading lies in regards to the mosque.
Halim Baig, a lawyer, mentioned they’ve all of the paperwork to show the mosque’s legality. “Some Hindu outfit leaders unfold lies in regards to the mosque and mentioned unlawful actions happen there. Now we have additionally sought motion towards them.”
The Hindu outfits on November 7 introduced the mahapanchayat after chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami requested the district administration to re-examine data of the mosque.
State Vishva Hindu Parishad chief Anuj Walia insisted the mosque is prohibited. “They’ve claimed that it’s a property of the Waqf Board. Then why is there a registry within the title of people? The property’s mutation was performed in 2005 and it has been proven as plots. It clarifies that there was no construction there till 2005,” he mentioned. He added they met the district administration for the re-examination of the data.
On November 2, the Hindu outfits deferred the mahapanchayat. Over 200 folks, together with eight members of Hindu right-wing outfits, had been earlier booked for the violence throughout a protest on October 24. Agitators clashed with the police and pelted stones after being stopped, prompting a lathi cost. On October 26, the police arrested three males for allegedly violating the prohibitory orders imposed within the district.
On September 9, Sanyukt Sanatan Dharam Rakshak Sangh submitted a memorandum to Bisht demanding that the mosque be “demolished”, claiming the construction was “not registered within the official income data”.
Bisht constituted a committee to probe the claims. The panel discovered that the mosque was authorized and the land it stood on was registered within the title of members of the Muslim neighborhood. The Hindu outfits introduced a protest march towards the mosque on October 24 regardless of the panel’s findings.
The protests towards the mosque are the newest in a sequence of such incidents. In June final 12 months, posters threatening Muslim shopkeepers to vacate their retailers had been put up in Uttarkashi’s Purola after two males, together with a Muslim, allegedly tried to abduct a lady. The 2 accused had been arrested. In Might this 12 months, a court docket in Uttarkashi acquitted them.
In February, communal violence erupted in Haldwani when a crew of district administration and native civic authorities demolished a madrasa and an “underground mosque-like construction” allegedly constructed illegally on authorities land. 5 folks had been killed within the violence.
In September, a mob attacked retailers belonging to Muslims searching for the arrest of a Muslim man accused of flashing at Nandanagar in Chamoli. Signboards banning entry of “non-Hindus” had been put up the identical month in some villages of Rudraprayag.
In October, a parking dispute triggered communal violence at Gauchar in Chamoli. Native merchants and Hindu right-wing outfits staged a protest the identical month over the alleged rape of a lady in Chamoli’s Tharali. A merchants’ physique within the Chamoli district final month requested Muslims to go away the Khansar space by December 31.
In October, retailers of the Muslim neighborhood in Tehri Garhwal’s Kirti Nagar had been ransacked over the alleged abduction of a minor woman. A month earlier, the Hindu outfit Rashtriya Sewa Sangh staged a protest march in Berinag city in Pithoragarh, demanding the demolition of a Muslim household’s home, claiming that it had been transformed right into a mosque.
