Mounesh Vishwakarma
Pics: Kishore Peraje
Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (SP)
Bantwal, May 17: It is learnt that some persons who were taking part in the victory procession of the BJP entered the compound of a mosque, burst crackers, and pelted stones at the mosque on the afternoon of Friday May 16.
The incident occurred at Kambalabettu in Vitlamudnoor village near Vittal in the taluk. BJP workers from villages like Urimajalu, Kambalabettu, Shantinagar etc were moving in vehicles, raising slogans and hailing BJP for its impressive performance.
Members of the mosque managing committee have complained that a few of them got down from the vehicles, entered the compound of the mosque, and burst crackets. A window pane of the mosque was shattered in the incident, it is said.
Vittal police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control. A case against Ramdas Kambalabettu, Sunit Karyady, Ganesh Urimajalu, Nandakumar Kambalabettu, Harish Urimajalu and others was registered in Vittal police station.
In the complaint, it is mentioned that the miscreants took to their heels as soon as those who were offering their prayers came out from the mosque.
The situation turned tense after BJP workers burst crackers in front of a mosque at Suralpady near Ganjimath, Gurpur on Friday. In this case, the mosque management took the youngsters, who had burst the crackers, to task. As verbal duel between the party workers and mosque management continued for sometime, situation had turned tense.