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Protest against mosque desecration in
Kashmir
Monday July 23, 2012 02:51:15 PM, IANS
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Srinagar:
A mosque in a Jammu and Kashmir village was torched, leading to a
shutdown in the area Monday and street protests as locals demanded
that the arsonists be brought to justice.
According to witnesses, scores of slogan shouting villagers took
to the streets in Badgam's Wohangam village, about 25 km from
here.
Markets and business establishments shut down and traffic was
suspended in the adjacent Magam town on the Srinagar-Gulmarg
highway as news about the mosque desecration spread.
The mosque had been torched Sunday night.
"The wooden frames, doors and windows on the second floor of the
mosque was torched by miscreants. This has resulted in tension,"
Abdul Rashid, a villager, told IANS over telephone.
Senior police officers rushed to the area and assured the people
that the guilty would be punished.
The government has advised all shrine committees in the valley to
depute 'watch and ward' staff at religious places.
It has also directed police to increase night patrolling following
the torching of some shrines in the valley in recent months.
On June 25, the shrine of Muslim saint Peer Dastgeer was gutted in
a mysterious fire incident in Khanyar locality of Srinagar.
Last week, the 600-year-old shrine of a local saint, Baba
Hanief-ud-Din, was destroyed in a mysterious fire in Badgam's
Rathsun village.
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