Communal Tension in Uttarakhand

Rudrapur: Tension gripped a locality after some miscreants threw an animal carcass inside a mosque in Rudrapur town in Uttarakhand, police today said.

Following reports that communal tension was brewing after the organs of a pig were thrown inside a mosque yesterday, police were immediately deployed in the area early today to avert a possible clash.

The authorities also ensured that the place of worship was cleansed.

Angry Muslims, however, demanded the immediate arrest of the miscreants.

When police picked up some persons for questioning on the basis of suspicion, some Hindus in the locality gheraoed the police station and demanded their release.

The police, however, said their personnel were adequately deployed and no untoward incident was reported yet.

Source: DNAIndia.com