Mob enters medieval mosque in Karnataka, performs puja, video viral
A mob forcefully entered a medieval mosque in Karnataka’s Bidar in the wee hours of Thursday morning and performed puja and chanted slogans like Jai Shree Ram, Jai Hindu Dharam, and Vande Mataram.
The incident took place at over 500 years old Mahmud Gaawan Madarsa mosque in Bidar.
A video of the incident is surfacing on the internet wherein a mob could be seen taking puja procession on the occasion of Dussehra after they forcefully broke the lock. For the unversed, Mahmud Gewan Madarsa and Mosque is a heritage site under the Archeological Survey of India. The incident happened on October 6.
Following this, members of the Muslim community filed a police complaint and alleged that the mob broke the gate and raised several slogans. In the police complaint, they also claimed that the mob dumped garbage on the wall of the mosque and threatened the security person.
The police registered an FIR against 9 people and no arrest has been made so far, reports said.
Superintendent of Police Dekka Kishore Babu said there is a Minar inside the mosque complex and it is a regular practice from the Nizam period to perform Dussehra puja. The SP further said no one illegally broke the lock to enter the mosque complex, however, an FIR has been registered and the miscreants will be arrested soon.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul chief Asauddin Owaisi condemned the act and demanded Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai to take stringent action against the miscreants and also claimed that BJP is promoting such activity only to demean Muslims.
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About Mahmud Gawan Madarsa
Mahmud Gawan was built in the 1460s and has Indo-Islamic architecture under the Bahmani Sultanate. It was founded by the prime minister of the Bahamani empire in the late 15th century. In 2005, the Archaeological Survey of India took an initiative to preserve and protect the monument.
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