Around half-a-dozen Muslim men were allegedly beaten up and a mosque was vandalised by the locals protesting against the volume of the loud-speaker during Namaz in Haryana's Karnal district on Wednesday. A case has been registered under different sections of the Indian Penal Code in this connection.
A group of young men in Karnal's Newal village allegedly barged inside the mosque around 9 p.m., beat up the people offering Namaz and also destroyed the loud speakers. The young men also issued threats to the the ones offering prayer. “Those offering Namaz were beaten up without any provocation. It is not the first incident in Karnal. Many such incidents of attack on Muslim community have happened in the past. We don't get much help from the police on several occasions,” said local leader Inaam Khan.
Station House Officer, Kunjpura Police Station, Inspector Raj Kumar, said that a case was registered on charges of voluntarily causing hurt, criminal intimidation, unlawful assembly and rioting. He said that it was a “minor altercation” over loud speaker and that no arrests were made so far.
