Muslims riots during Ganesh festival in Madhya Pradesh

Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh (CHAKRA)

There were Hindu – Muslim riots on the issue of installation of Ganesh idol at Ujjain. Two persons were killed and many got injured during these riots. Curfew has been imposed in the jurisdiction of 9 police stations in the city.

The trouble began on Friday night in the Daulatgunj old town area of Ujjain after a Hindu shop-owner installed an idol of Ganesh at his store, which is
adjacent to a mosque. Police said that some members of the Muslim community objected to it since the idol is un-Islamic and was near the Mosque where
Muslims were praying. Although the idol was on the shopkeepers property,police urged the shopkeeper to shift the idol to another spot to calm the Muslim mob.

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Mohammedan fascists pelt stones at police and burn Hindu houses in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh

1 killed, 37 injured in MP communal clash

Tuesday, 10 March , 2009, 23:30

Ujjain: One person was killed and 37 people including three police officers were injured in a communal clash in a Madhya Pradesh town on Tuesday, police said.

Indefinite curfew was imposed in Mahidpura sub-district following the clash which erupted after police stopped members of a Muslim group, returning from a religious procession, from going towards the area where Hindus were holding a religious programme, police said.

“The trouble started when a few people returning from Milad-un-Nabi procession, on being stopped from going on a particular road, pelted stones at police,” Inspector General of Police Pawan Jain said.”The police baton-charged and used teargas to control them. They burnt houses of another community,” Jain said.

“The police opened fire to take control of the situation. At least 37 people have been reported injured and one person was killed. The youth succumbed while being rushed to the district hospital. The situation is tense but under control,” Jain said.

Three critically injured people were rushed to Indore.

The injured include sub-divisional officers of police Pradeep Shende and M S Dabar and inspector Upmanyu Saxena. end

Curfew in M.P. town after communal clash

Ujjain (M.P.): One person was killed in firing and 17 others, including six policemen, were injured as members of two communities clashed at Mahidpur in this district on Tuesday. An indefinite curfew has been clamped in the town.

The clash occurred when a religious procession, taken out on the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi, was returning from the Ram Mandir area of the town, where people were taking part in an ‘Akhand Ramayan Path,’ the police said.

The police said their appeal to the processionists to take a different route went unheeded, leading to the clash. The mob indulged in heavy stone throwing and arson, and the police lobbed teargas shells and fired in the air to contain the violence.

The police also canecharged the rioters. A person was shot dead during the clash, the police said. However, it was not clear whether the person was killed in the firing by the police or someone else.

Nearly two dozen people were arrested, official sources said, adding the situation in the town was tense but under control. An extra police force has been deployed at Mahidpur in view of Holi on Wednesday. — PTI