A gaggle of males armed with lathis allegedly barged right into a mosque in a village in Haryana’s Sonipat, attacked people offering namaz and vandalised the place, police mentioned on April 10.
At least six people have been injured in the Sunday night assault in the mosque in Sandal Kalan village, they mentioned.
Police have arrested 10 people for the “unprovoked attack”.
An extra police pressure was deployed after the incident however the state of affairs is peaceable in the village now, a Sonipat police official informed PTI on Monday.
Sonipat Police Commissioner B. Satheesh Balan mentioned that info was obtained at night time that some anti-social parts had entered the mosque. They beat up these offering prayers.
“It was an unprovoked attack. There was no previous incident reported in the village which would have caused disharmony [between communities],” he mentioned.
Pictures of the alleged attackers carrying lathis in their fingers and roaming the streets of the village had surfaced on social media.
According to the locals, some youths from the village requested people contained in the mosque who have been offering prayers to cease it and later vandalised the place.
Some youngsters have been additionally contained in the mosque on the time of the incident, they claimed.
The arrested youths belong to the identical village. They have been booked underneath sections of the Indian Penal Code pertaining to hurting non secular sentiments, the police official mentioned.
“Strict action as per law will be taken. Such hooliganism will not be tolerated,” Mr. Balan mentioned.
Police mentioned the small mosque is constructed by the neighborhood in the village.
