05-12-2005, 05:58 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Communal tension grips Gujarat town
RK Misra/ Gandhinagar (Gujarat)
The north Gujarat town of Sami was in the grip of communal tension after the <b>Bajrang Dal president of the town in Patan district was brutally stabbed to death</b>.
Thirty-year-old Prahlad Thakore, who was brutally stabbed by five persons <b>belonging to a different community</b>, succumbed while on the way to hospital. As news of Thakore's death spread there was both panic and tension as shops closed shut and police reinforcements were summoned to prevent the situation from flaring up.
Thakore died of injuries en route to the hospital. The Bajrang Dal leader was stabbed five times in the abdomen, in the town's main bazaar, while he was engrossed in a conversation with a friend.
The area superintendent of police B R Pandor said the situation was tense but under control. Five persons have been accused in the case: <b>Two main culprits Saiyyed Jabbar Noorpir and Saiyyed Maqbool Miraji, who stabbed Thakor, and Saiyyed Lala Abdul Master, Saiyyed Munna Saiviya and Saiyyed Umar Noor Tunda, pinned the victim down.</b>
One of the accused has been caught while four are at large. Special police teams have been created to track down the four.
The police did not divulge the name of the person arrested.
A top police official did not rule out the communal angle and said the incident could be in retaliation to the Gujarat 2002 riots.
<i>The victim and the accused are known to have entered into brawls and fights over petty issues in the past.</i>Â <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> On May 18, 2004, they were involved in a stone-pelting incident in which cross complaints of rioting were registered later.
This is not the first incident where Bajrang Dal and VHP activists have been targeted in the state. In Ahmedabad, after the 2002 riots, VHP leader Jaydeep Patel was shot at in Bapunagar and local VHP leader Jagdish Tewari was shot at in his shop in Soni ni Chali, but both had survived the attack.
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RK Misra/ Gandhinagar (Gujarat)
The north Gujarat town of Sami was in the grip of communal tension after the <b>Bajrang Dal president of the town in Patan district was brutally stabbed to death</b>.
Thirty-year-old Prahlad Thakore, who was brutally stabbed by five persons <b>belonging to a different community</b>, succumbed while on the way to hospital. As news of Thakore's death spread there was both panic and tension as shops closed shut and police reinforcements were summoned to prevent the situation from flaring up.
Thakore died of injuries en route to the hospital. The Bajrang Dal leader was stabbed five times in the abdomen, in the town's main bazaar, while he was engrossed in a conversation with a friend.
The area superintendent of police B R Pandor said the situation was tense but under control. Five persons have been accused in the case: <b>Two main culprits Saiyyed Jabbar Noorpir and Saiyyed Maqbool Miraji, who stabbed Thakor, and Saiyyed Lala Abdul Master, Saiyyed Munna Saiviya and Saiyyed Umar Noor Tunda, pinned the victim down.</b>
One of the accused has been caught while four are at large. Special police teams have been created to track down the four.
The police did not divulge the name of the person arrested.
A top police official did not rule out the communal angle and said the incident could be in retaliation to the Gujarat 2002 riots.
<i>The victim and the accused are known to have entered into brawls and fights over petty issues in the past.</i>Â <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> On May 18, 2004, they were involved in a stone-pelting incident in which cross complaints of rioting were registered later.
This is not the first incident where Bajrang Dal and VHP activists have been targeted in the state. In Ahmedabad, after the 2002 riots, VHP leader Jaydeep Patel was shot at in Bapunagar and local VHP leader Jagdish Tewari was shot at in his shop in Soni ni Chali, but both had survived the attack.
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