New Delhi: Gurgaon’s Sector 57 mosque was vandalised, set on fire and its deputy imam murdered by a mob amidst reports of tension prevailing in Haryana’s Mewat after a Hindutva procession caused a communal flare up.
Sources told The Wire the mosque was attacked at 12:30 am last night by a large armed mob which fired on the mosque and then set it on fire. The chief imam of the mosque was away to his village last night. But the naib-imam or deputy imam, who would lead prayers in his absence, was assaulted, stabbed 13 times with swords, etc. and his throat slit before he was killed. Another person present in the premises was also badly beaten up and shot in the knee. He is presently in the ICU.
Sources at the hospital the two were taken to – W Pratiksha Hospital – confirmed to The Wire that one of the victims was brought dead, with multiple stab wounds in his chest.
#Gurugram Sector 57 Masjid has been put on fire and 3 people have been injured and admitted to W Pratiksha Hospital. @DC_Gurugram @gurgaonpolice @cmohry need your immediate help #SOS
I am receiving similar reports from few other Masjid at Sohna. pic.twitter.com/BmrQjGKxgn
— Altaf Ahmad (@JoinAltaf) July 31, 2023
Only mosque in New Gurugram on government-allocated land
The Sector 57 mosque is the only mosque on a government-allocated land in the planned urban developed area in Gurugram and, as The Hindu reported in 2021, it “caters to almost half of the city’s municipal area spread across south and east zones and a large section of the floating population commuting to the Millennium City daily for work”…
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