Amid the targeted attack on Hindus by Muslim mobs in Nagamangala village in the Mandya district of Karnataka, a picture of Lord Ganesha’s idol being caged in a police van is getting viral on the social media. The image got viral online soon after radical Muslim mobs ran a rampage in Mandya and pelted stones at the idol of Lord Ganesha during the immersion ceremony on Wednesday night.
By Friday, pictures of a cop carrying an idol of Lord Ganesha to safety started trending on social media. The Hindu deity was seen locked in a police van instead of being placed at the temple. Initially, it was believed to be from Mandya, it turns out that the ‘arrest’ of the Hindu deity was carried out in Bengaluru.
According to the media reports, the seizure of the idol of Lord Ganesha occurred during a protest by Hindus in Bengaluru against the atrocities committed against their community in Mandya. The Bengaluru police arrested 40 Hindus for taking out demonstrations in the Town Hall area without permission. The protest was organised by the Bengaluru Metropolitan Ganesh Utsav Committee.
The police deployed at the site took the Lord Ganesha idol from the Hindu protestors and put it inside their caged vehicle. Photographers covering the demonstration clicked the pictures of the Hindu deity being ‘arrested’ by the Bengaluru police. A cop said, ‘The group of people attempted to protest in front of the Town Hall without permission. As a precautionary measure, about 40 individuals were taken into custody’.
Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya took to X (formerly Twitter) to slam the local police and the Congress-led-Karnataka government for hurting Hindu sentiments. “This visual of Lord Ganesha in a police vehicle is terrifying. Why is the Congress hell-bent on insulting our dieties, & belittling the belief and faith of millions of Hindus?” he tweeted.
Meanwhile, on Monday Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghvi said that 27 individuals have been arrested for allegedly instigating the stone-pelting incident in the Sayedpura area of Surat. He further said that CCTV footage from the area had been reviewed to identify and arrest the remaining suspects. In one such case, a tense situation occurred in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, as a Ganesh Chaturthi procession was met with stone-melting. The incident occurred as devotees were transporting the idol of Lord Ganesh to a pandal for the establishment when the procession came under attack near the Mochipura area.
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