A group of people belonging to a minority community, enraged over comments against them on the new media, injured policemen and damaged over two dozen vehicles outside a police station at Bhuj in bordering Kutch district on Sunday evening. The unrest erupted following a religious comment on the social media.
Sources in the Bhuj police said that members of the minority community lodged a complaint against a youth who allegedly hurt their religious sentiments by posting a comment on Facebook.
Following the complaint, within few hours the police arrested the youth, who reportedly posted the derogatory comment. As the news spread in Bhuj on his arrest, a large number of people from the minority community gathered outside ‘B’ division police station and asked the police to handover the arrested youth to them. Since, the police turned down their demand and as result of it, some of the members in the mob started pelting stone on vehicles and policemen. Due to sudden attack from the mob, at least three policemen injured and over two dozen vehicles parked outside the police station and in surrounding area were damaged.
In took two hours to control the mob and the police had to lob tear gas shells and also fired five rounds in air to disburse them, said a senior police official in Bhuj.