Clashes erupted during a Hindu religious procession in India’s capital New Delhi on Saturday, injuring several people, including police, police said, days after similar religious violence in three provinces. Jahangirpuri, a suburb of New Delhi. Police are still investigating. “We are still looking into how many people were injured … some police officers were injured,” said Deependra Pathak, a Jahangirpuri police chief, in riot gear.
Muslims were violently targeted
Violence erupted during a procession to celebrate the Hindu festival of Hanuman Jayanti, police said without giving further details. Earlier on Saturday, protesters in New Delhi chanted slogans against the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying Muslims had been violently attacked by authorities after Hindu-Muslim clashes in three parts of the Hindu-led Hindu party Modi.
Clashes last Sunday during a religious festival prompted police to impose a curfew in one city and shut down more than four people in parts of the province. after the violence erupted during the Ram Navami Hindu festival, according to a police official who did not want to be identified.
Opposition politicians have blamed
In Modi’s hometown, Gujarat, authorities have demolished temporary shops belonging to those who claimed to be involved in the riots in which one man was killed, an official in Anand district of Gujarat said there had been an altercation. The Bharatiya Janata Hindu sect to eradicate tensions between many Hindus and Muslims in the ruling provinces.
Nine people were arrested
The leaders of the 13 opposition parties issued a joint statement calling for peace and harmony in the aftermath of the religious conflict. ” Police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday arrested nine members of a strong Hindu group accused of setting fire to the home of a Muslim man who married a Hindu woman.
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