Ganpati Visarjan

On Monday (8th September), Hindu organisations staged a protest against the stone pelting incident. The police, however, resorted to lathi-charge to disperse the protesting Hindus, including women, and even arrested some of them.

Mohammad Zaid, Mohammad Irfan, Shahbaz Alam, Zaid Khan, Mohammad Hussain, Aqib Ali, Mohammad Salman, Mohammad Ashraf, Sabir Ali, Ghulam Bakhtiar, Mohammad Afzal, Mohammad Majid, Qasim Ali, Mahfooz Raza, Zaid Ansari, and Qutubuddin have been arrested.

As the Ganpati immersion procession arrived at the Chamarajapete circle, the Hindus raised Jai Shri Ram slogans. This somehow infuriated the Muslims who started raising Islamic slogans and a verbal clash ensued. Soon after, stones were hurled at the Hindu procession.

Additional Commissioner of Police Dnyaneshwar Chavan said that the Ganpati immersion procession was passing peacefully when it came under attack near the Hindustani Mosque.

The authorities have enforced a curfew till 14th September and educational institutions have been shut.

The RSS worker Nilesh Parmar was arrested after the Vadodara incident where Islamists pelted stones on the Ganesh Visarjan Yatra at Manjusar in Savli taluka of Vadodara

When OpIndia contacted the mother of Nilesh Parmar she said that her son is an RSS volunteer and always raises his voice for the country, religion and society leading from the front.

Some miscreants threw acid at Ganpati Visarjan procession when it reached Meena Bazar, a Muslim-dominated area of the city

Bombay High Court directed Maharashtra forest department to ensure that there is no ganpati idol immersion inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park.

Action has been initiated against three municipality workers in Raipur, Chhattisgarh who have been suspended from duty.