Team Clarion
SURAT — The police in Gujarat’s Surat arrested 33 people after breaking gates, locks and windows of Muslim houses following Sunday’s communal clashes over alleged stone pelting at Ganesh pandals in Syedpura locality of the city.
On Monday, Gujarat police also posted a video of the crackdown showing police officials in mufti breaking the gates and locks possibly to arrest someone. In the video, state Home Minister Harsh Sanghvi is also shown vowing to take strict action and arrest the people over stone pelting allegations before sunrise. The video shows those arrested could not walk properly suggesting that they were subjected to violence in the police custody.
Talking to Times Now Navbharat, a Muslim woman said as they were making preparations to have food, suddenly the police came and started hitting the window of her home with lathis. “The glasses of the window were broken. My one-year-old girl was playing near the window. When I came to take my child, they shouted asking me to open the door else they would break it,” she said. Two men were arrested from her house.
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