Durga Puja

At Madgadi village in Garhwa district of Jharkhand, violence erupted after the Hindus refused to change the route of idol immersion that goes through a Myslim area.

BJP leader Babulal Marandi stated that the idol immersion procession was left stranded for 6-7 hours and that the cops were wasting time instead of taking action against the perpetrators.

India condemned the attacks on Hindu temples and mandaps in Bangladesh during the Durga Puja festival and expressed serious concerns over the attacks

Muslims carried out targeted attacks in the form of idol vandalism, desecration and physical attacks on Durga Puja mandaps and pandals. Hindu devotees were stabbed, attacked with stones and intimidated against celebrating the annual festival.

The Hyderabad police statement also does not explain how the "vagabond", which is essentially a homeless person, disconnects the electric lines and the CCTV before looking for food and subsequently vandalise the Durga Idol.

The Durga Puja committee has accused the police of downplaying the petrol bomb attack by equating it with the robbery incident.

A Durga Puja Pandal in Kolkata was stormed by a Muslim mob who asked the the Puja organizers to stop the Hindu rituals and threatened to vandalise the idol

The perpetrators first disconnected the electricity lines and then destroyed CCTVs. Following that, they damaged the barricades, and the arm of the idol of the Hindu deity

Muslims in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh stormed a Durga Puja pandal, pelted stones and attacked the devotees with sticks, injuring many including kids

The Buddhist monks accused that the officials were involved in the violence against the minority community in Bangladesh.