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Hindus forcefully perform pooja inside mosque in Karnataka

Screengrab from the viral video shows a mob entering the mosque grounds in Bidar Karnataka.

Karnataka: A Hindu mob forcefully performed pooja inside Mahmud Gawan Madarsa mosque in Bidar area of Karnataka on Thursday morning.

A video sourced from The Hindustan Gazette shows a Hindu group, who were taking a Devi procession on the occasion of the Dasara festival, forcefully breaking the lock.

According to a report by Siasat, a High Court advocate Syed Talha Hashmi said the incident occurred at around 1 am at night.

“The Hindu mob was chanting slogans of Jai Shree Ram, Jai Hindu Dharam, Vande Mataram. They performed pooja on the mosque premises,” the advocate was quoted as saying.

Hashmi added that the Mahmud Gawan Madarsa mosque comes under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

“The video was made viral. In the afternoon, members from the Muslim community as well as the ASI went and filed a police complaint. An FIR has been registered,” Hashmi told Siasat. According to Hashmi, one person has been taken into police custody.

 

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