In a sensational incident, teak smugglers in Brahmanwada Thadi village of Maharashtra launched an attack on the local crime branch of the police that had come to arrest them.
"The way 5-6 incidents, all half-truths, were falsely used as a propaganda material to fuel anti-Hindu and an anti-national atmosphere, seems to be a part of a larger anti-national conspiracy," said VHP in a statement.
The villagers claimed that the main accused Wasim is a history-sheeter with past criminal records. Wasim had allegedly mobilised Muslims in the area to remove the Hindu temple.