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Tension at Delhi mosque site after police,
mob clash
Sunday July 22, 2012 05:51:19 PM, IANS
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New Delhi: A number
of people have been arrested following the late Saturday night
clash at an excavated site near the Jama Masjid when a mob pelted
stones at policemen there on being refused entry, police said. 10
policemen were injured in the incident.
"We have arrested a few people in this connection. An inspector
and a head constable and eight constables were injured when the
angry mob pelted stones at them," Additional Commissioner of
Police Devesh Chandra Srivastva told IANS. He did not specify the
number.
Police had to even lob tear gas shells to disperse the mob.
According to police officials, the situation is still tense in
Subhash Park area.
A mosque had started coming up at the site after a building's
remains were discovered early this month at the site excavated for
Delhi Metro work.
Some people from the area claimed that the ruins were those of the
17th century Mughal-era Akbarabadi mosque and started building a
fresh structure at the site but the Delhi High Court put a stop to
it Friday.
Following the court order, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation
and police cordoned off the area and handed over the site to
Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
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Believed to be built by Bibi Akbarabadi, one of the wives of then Mughal Emperor
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in Chandni Chowk. It is associated with the freedom movement of
1857 during which it was destroyed by the British.
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