Communal violence in Haryana's Nuh claim five lives, over 30 injured
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The Mewat region of Haryana experienced major communal strife on Monday, July 31st, after a political rally by Hindutva organisations turned violent. The incident of communal violence in Haryana’s Nuh, which is home to the Meo Muslim community also spilt to Gurugram, the satellite township of capital New Delhi on Monday night.
Five people, including two home guards, were killed due to the communal violence in Nuh and Gurugram, while over 30, including senior police officials, have been wounded in the violence. The state government under Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asked the Union government to deploy federal paramilitary troops in the regions affected by the violence, which has been reportedly approved and 20 companies have been deployed.
The communal violence in Haryana’s Nuh was reportedly triggered by a rally called “Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra” organised by Hindutva-driven Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Monday from Nuh to Ferozepur Jhirka. It’s alleged that the participants of the rally got engaged in a scuffle with the local residents in the Khedla Mod area when stones were pelted at them. The police alleged that the locals had pelted stones at the Bajrang Dal-VHP rally, while the latter has denied it.
The scuffle snowballed into a major conflict, in which two homeguards were killed and ten, including police officers, were injured. The police informed that “one or two cars” participating in the rally were set ablaze by miscreants. Later, the violence spilt to Gurgaon, where armed Bajrang Dal activists gathered in large numbers in the evening and started vandalism on the Gurgaon-Sohna Highway, attacking cars and shops on the way. Later, on Monday night, a mosque in Gurgaon’s Sector 57 was set on fire and two, including the 26-year-old Imam, were shot dead. According to the police, five suspects have been detained in this case.
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