Haldwani

'DNN News' journalist Pankaj Agarwal told OpIndia that the attackers selectively singled out Hindus among journalists, Municipal Corporation officials and police personnel.

OpIndia spoke with Pankaj Saxena, an injured journalist from 'HNN News' who came to the hospital for treatment.

Uttarakhand Police released a list of the names of 25 arrested accused rioters namely Junaid, Mohammad Nizam, Mehboob alias Maku, Shahzad alias Kanakada etc.

 Deepanshu saw 100-150 female officials running wearing helmets to save their lives. He added that many of them suffered injuries. Some of them were taken to the hospital. Deepanshu stated that he offered water to the injured and took them to the hospital.

Officer Joshi, deployed in Haldwani, stated that all roads were blocked because the rioters burned down all vehicles parked near the roads.

Vehicles were charred beyong recognition, not only stones but glass bottles and petrol bombs were hurled at the personnel. Videos of severuch

According to reports, rioters extracted petrol from motorcycles parked on the roads and used it to make petrol bombs for the Haldwani attack

The journalist further added that the colony where the demolition exercise was undertaken is illegal. He said that action taken by the authorities against the illegally constructed madarsa-mosque on government land was in compliance with the Uttarakhand High Court order.

A picture of Ajay, undergoing treatment in a hospital in the aftermath of the attack, has gone viral on social media.

Irked by the bulldozer action on the illegally constructed structure in Haldwani, which some labelled as a madarsa while others called it a namaz place, he threatened both PM Modi and Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami with violence