By Sumedha Pal / The Wire
New Delhi: A communal clash broke out on October 10 when a Durga idol immersion procession was passing from the front of a mosque in the Ibrahimpur region of Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur.
The people in the procession reportedly played loud music, danced with sticks and weapons in front of the Jamia Masjid as it proceeded for the immersion ceremony.
On 10th of october in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, A crowd from Hindu community took out a religious procession on the occasion of Durga Puja. While passing by a mosque, the men from Muslim community asked the procession to lower the volume of the music played on loud + pic.twitter.com/Uzn8TtWyW9
— Meer Faisal (@meerfaisal01) October 12, 2022
According to Dainik Bhaskar, the procession was halted there for about five hours. The residents had raised an objection about the loud music, which, after a verbal fight, turned into a ruckus.
They alleged that the participants of the procession vandalised the local mosque, and homes and shops in the area. Several people were also injured during the clash.
Speaking to The Wire, Aslam* (name changed), a resident, said, “On October 10, a procession moving towards an idol immersion ceremony reached outside our local mosque – the Jamia Masjid. It was around the time of the maghrib (evening) prayers.”
“Stones were pelted at the mosque and an attempt was made to vandalise it by setting it on fire,” he alleged.
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