Reaction over objectionable fb post against Hindu deity in Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh.

Screen-grab from a video showing Muslim houses which were destroyed, allegedly by Hindutva activists who were angry over them allegedly connected with an ‘objectionable’ post on social media.

MP: Angry Hindutva activists ransacked Muslim houses over objectionable Facebook post against Hindu deity.

Susmita Tiwari | HENB | Bhopal | Aug 17, 2022:: Hindu reaction surfaced when nearly a hundred men associated with Hindutva groups allegedly attacked and ransacked the houses of three Muslim families in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, August 16, after a Muslim man who was their relative reportedly made an objectionable social media post against a Hindu deity.

The post was allegedly made by one Baidul Kadir who was arrested on the day itself. The incident left the atmosphere at Dhanpuri town of the state’s Shahdol district significantly tense.

The agitated Hindu people attacked the three houses after district authorities primarily refused to put stringent sections of law and delayed the arrest of the culprits. There had been protests at one of the major squares of the town, calling for the razing of Kadir’s house. However, Police arrested one later.

According to police, Baidul Kadir is a resident of Purani Basti of Dhanpuri. He allegedly made an ‘objectionable post’ on Facebook against a Hindu deity on Tuesday morning. As the post went viral, a group of men belonging to Hindutva groups gathered at Dhanpuri police station, where they filed a written compliant by afternoon, demanding stern action against Kadir for ‘hurting religious sentiments.’

After huge Hindu protest and upon the complaint of one Anil Singh Sengar (38), a man associated with the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) as per his Facebook profile, police booked Kadir under sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) and 295-A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of the Indian Penal Code and also invoked Section 66-A of the Information Technology Act. He was arrested on August 16 afterwards.

From source it is learnt, Mukesh Vaishya, Assistant Superintendent of Police of Shahdol said that police have recommended that the stringent National Security Act (NSA) would be invoked against Kadir as over half a dozen cases have been lodged against him at various police stations of Shahdol.

Police are also trying to get further angels of such facebook posting against Hindus to create communal tension intentionally.

___Inputs from The Wire.

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