No mosque broken, none injured in Tripura just lately: Centre
Amid prevailing communal pressure in Tripura and rumours of non secular puts being centered in stream, the Centre on Saturday issued a observation urging other people to care for calm and no longer consider pretend information. It additionally asserted that no mosque has been broken in Tripura within the fresh previous and that there have been no reviews of damage, rape or dying in any conflict within the state.
“There is not any reported case of wear and tear of the construction of any Masjid in Tripura within the fresh previous. There is not any file of easy or grievous harm or rape or dying of anyone in those incidents as alleged in some social media posts,” the Ministry of House Affairs (MHA) stated in a observation.
The MHA in particular tried to position to leisure rumours of a specific mosque in Gomati district being vandalised. “There were information reviews which have been circulating {that a} mosque in Kakraban house of Gomati district in Tripura has been broken and vandalized. Those information reviews are pretend and are a whole misrepresentation of details. The mosque in Dargabazar house of Kakraban has no longer been broken and the Tripura Police in Gomati district is operating to care for peace and tranquillity,” the observation stated.
In protest towards the vandalism on Durga Puja pandals in Bangladesh just lately, rallies have been taken out by means of organisations just like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM), amongst others in Tripura. All over a few of these protest rallies, miscreants purportedly vandalised a number of properties, stores and mosques. The state executive has alternatively maintained there’s no communal pressure within the state.
“Folks must care for calm and must no longer be erroneous by means of such pretend reviews. As an example, in Maharashtra there were reviews of violence and unsavoury statements which might be geared toward irritating peace and cohesion, in accordance with pretend information referring to Tripura. That is very relating to and it’s recommended that peace is maintained in any respect prices,” the MHA stated in its observation.
In keeping with reviews of incidents in Tripura, there were rallies in Maharashtra that have witnessed violence. A minimum of 20 FIRs were registered in reference to stone pelting right through rallies held in protest towards the Tripura communal violence in 5 districts of Maharashtra and 20 individuals were arrested, state police stated on Saturday.
The incidents of stone pelting had principally took place in Amravati, Malegaon and Nanded towns right through the rallies taken out by means of some Muslim organisations on Friday.
Reacting to the stone-pelting incident at Maharashtra, Tripura Deputy Leader Minister Jishnu Dev Varma stated there was once no historical past of communal riots in Tripura and claimed a piece of persons are looking to do “slender politics” by means of spreading pretend information. Talking to newshounds this night time, Dev Varma stated, “State of affairs in Tripura is standard. There’s a robust communal cohesion amongst other people of all religions right here. Some persons are looking to disturb this peace and cohesion. A piece is attempting to go into via again door. It’s a conspiracy.”
He strongly condemned stone pelting in Maharashtra and stated it was once unlucky that this took place within the title of Tripura. Dev Varma additionally appealed to the folk of Tripura to stick cautious towards hearsay mongering.
Closing week, the Tripura Police booked 102 social media account holders below terror fees, for allegedly spreading “objectionable information pieces/ statements” in regards to the fresh violence, and served notices to Twitter, Fb, and YouTube asking them to delete those accounts and supply details of the people working them.
The Ultimate Court docket on Thursday agreed to mend a date to listen to a plea difficult the Tripura Police choice to invoke the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, 1967, towards two Ultimate Court docket legal professionals, who visited the state as a part of an impartial fact-finding crew following reviews of communal violence, and a journalist.
The crew had printed a file which alleged that a couple of Hindu organisations had unleashed violence in spaces of minority habitations, together with mosques, properties, and stores owned by means of contributors of the minority group.
