A day after the communal clashes at Parel, Byculla, Dadar and Worli, the State Minority Commission on Monday wrote to the Mumbai Police claiming that the assault on several Muslim youths at Lalbaug on Sunday night was a planned conspiracy aimed at instilling fear in the minds of members of the minority community.
“On Sunday night, those returning from a procession celebrating Prophet Mohammed’s birth anniversary were attacked. The visual evidence available shows that the incidents in Parel, Byculla, Dadar and Worli were pre-planned,” the minority panel’s chairman Munaf Hakim said in the letter. He further stated that an armed mob deliberately stopped and assaulted Muslims who were travelling in vehicles.
“The visual evidence clearly shows that a mob emerged from these localities and stopped cars and motorcycles and assaulted people,” the letter stated while demanding action against all those found to be involved in the incidents.
“These incidents have occurred in the same majority-dominated areas where such attacks have taken place earlier too. These attacks have been carried out to disturb the law and order situation in the state and also instil fear in the minds of the minorities,” Hakim said.
Byculla MLA Waris Pathan too claimed that members of the minority community were deliberately targeted. “Some people complained to me they were stopped because of their appearance and assaulted,” Pathan said.
However, Shiv Sena MLA Ajay Chaudhary, who was at the spot on Sunday night, refuted the charge. He claimed the clash was not because of an accident, as some people claimed, but because of behaviour of the bikers who were returning from the procession. “People returning from the procession abused people on the road. Firecrackers were thrown by these people towards those bystanders. They even surrounded a traffic warden at Bharatmata signal and were about to assault him. It was only then that the public got involved and assaulted some of them,” Chaudhary said.
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