Dozens arrested for vandalising Hindu temple in Pakistan

Pakistani police have arrested no less than two dozen individuals in in a single day raids after a Hindu temple was set on fireplace and demolished by a mob on Wednesday, based on studies. The crackdown got here even because the nation’s chief justice, Gulzar Ahmed, on Thursday took suo motu discover of the assault on the place of worship in Teri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district. The nation’s supreme court docket will hear the case on January 5.Local police mentioned raids had been carried out in a single day, and extra raids have been underway to arrest those that participated within the vandalism or provoked the mob to demolish the place of worship.Some 1,500 individuals had reportedly participated within the assault on the temple.The chief justice took the step after minority lawmaker Ramesh Kumar briefed him concerning the temple being set ablaze, throughout their assembly in Karachi on Thursday.The Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj’s Samadhi together with the Krishna Dwara Mandir in Teri village was vandalised on Wednesday by an unruly mob. They claimed the temple had encroached on additional land and set it on fireplace.Noorul Haq Qadri, Pakistan’s minister for non secular affairs, referred to as the episode “a conspiracy against sectarian harmony”. He took to Twitter on Thursday, saying the “protection of the religious freedom of minorities is our religious, constitutional, moral and national responsibility”.Local media quoted advocate Rohit Kumar, a consultant of the Hindu neighborhood, as saying that the temple hadn’t exceeded the world agreed upon.Meanwhile, dozens of Hindus reportedly rallied within the metropolis of Karachi to demand the rebuilding of the place of worship in Teri village.The temple was first attacked and demolished in 1997. After intervention by the supreme court docket in 2015, the area people had agreed to its reconstruction. Despite the reconstruction, there was a dispute over the land allotted to the temple. This additionally led to some misunderstanding between the temple supporters and native clerics.In 1919, Guru Sri Paramhans Dayal was laid to relaxation on the web site and a temple was constructed there.