Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: June 18, 2002
URL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/180602/dlnat53.asp
Three persons, including a five-month-old
boy, were killed and 150 shops, houses and vehicles set on fire in communal
violence two groups today at Jamner town in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra.
While the boy and Ramesh Mali (45)
were stabbed to death, Yusuf, a resident of Ahmedabad, was killed in police
firing on mobs, police sources said.
Police fired eight rounds to disperse
clashing mobs and curfew imposed on the town.
The violence sparked off at about
3.30 pm when two groups of people clashed over the arrest of a person allegedly
involved in desecration of a Hanuman idol in the market place on June 15,
the sources said.
Police sources at Nasik said that
preceding the desecration of the idol, on June six a dead pig was allegedly
thrown near the Shahi Masjid.
The mob today indulged in stone-pelting
and set ablaze 150 houses, vehicles and shops in the area.
The sources said 10 people, including
Additional S.P Poharkar and a police inspector, were injured in heavy stone
pelting.
A majority community man was arrested
for his alleged involvement in desecration of the idol, the sources said.
