Minority Hindus were again attacked in Ahmedabad’s Shahpur area where Muslims are in majority now.
According to primary information available, some shops and one auto-rickshaw are torched. Police lobbed more than one dozen tear gas shells to control the rioting crowds. It tool one hour to control riot.
On late Monday evening, local police blocked Delhi Darwaja-Mirzapur road. Those Injured in riot were taken to V.S. hospital. Fire brigade rushed to the place to control fire.
What happened actually?Devipoojak community’s wedding procession was on way at around 10 pm in Shahpur’s Nagoriwad area. Some Muslims coming out from Nagori Ahmedi mosque asked them to lower down the voice which was unacceptable to Devipoojak Hindus. Here then the Muslims started stone and soda bottle pelting after short verbal argument. They were responded well by the other side in same way. But as Hindus are in minority here now, The Muslims burnt 3 houses, 7 shops and 6 rickshaws to ash. Six police constables were injured by Muslims while trying to control the situation. The crowds did not allow fire brigade vehicles to enter their locality.
Once Shahpur was Hindu dominated area. However the area turned into Muslim locality after many Hindu properties cornered by Muslims during riots were sold. The Congress MLA has replaced BJP MLA in this area.
http://deshgujarat.com/2010/05/24/group-clash-erupts-again-in-ahmedabads-shahpur-area/Vijay Dataniya who was according to locals dragged to Muslim street near Ambalivali pol secondary school, was beaten by stones, forcefully fed acid, showered by acid and injured by sword and pipe by group of rioting Muslims died today in Ahmedabad’s V.S.Hospital.Resident of Ramesh chowk in Shahpur area where Hindus are in minority now, thanks to frequent attacks by Muslims, Vijay Dataniya was 52-year old. He is survived by two children and wife.
Vijay was brutally attacked by Muslims on Tuesday. Spectators present on the site said,
“there were four police constables present on the site, but they couldn’t dare to prevent group of Muslim attackers. After Vijay was brutally beaten and fed acid, we the people from Hindu area formed large group, went there and rescued him from the hands of Muslims.”Locals said, “this is one more death of Hindu in Shahpur area. If you start counting the records, in previous 10-20 years dozens of Hindus are killed in this area.Many rich and middle class Hindus who can afford to buy property elsewhere have vacated this area and shifter to other parts of the city. Now some poor people like us are surviving here. We face regular attacks from Muslim side, but as we are poor we can not buy property anywhere else and can not shift. We are here to fight with little help of police sometime, but most of the time on our own.”
The latest riot in Shahpur began when a Hindu wedding procession was passing through a street where Muslim mosque is located.
Muslims asked Hindus to stop music and dancing. They also reportedly harassed some Hindu girls participating in wedding procession. On Tuesday, at least four Hindu Mandirs were vandalized by Muslims. Idol of goddess Khodiar mata was damaged. All this happened when heavy police force was deployed here.
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