By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Mumbai: According to reports there has been a small communal skirmish in Jhula Maidan area of Mumbai over donation money (chanda) for Ganpati puja. One police constable and two others have been injured.
Jhula Maidan falls under the Agripada Police station. According to reports, some youths were collecting ‘donations’ (chanda) for Ganpati puja and when some shopkeepers allegedly refused giving money, they were manhandled and beaten.
Seeing the fights some local youths, who were playing cricket in the Jhula Maidan rushed and started beating them. Two persons and a police constable got injured in the skirmish. They have been admitted in a nearby hospital.
Hundreds of people soon gathered on the spot. Police immediately swung into action, and at the time of filing of this story, the situation was under control.
Police forces are doing the rounds in the Muslim locality to assure them and keeping situation under control.
Local Congress leaders Fayyaz Ahmed, Razzaque Qazi and Shakkir Ansari have reached the spot.
Engineer Taufique Aslam Khan of JIH meeting local shopkeepers.
Engineer Taufique Aslam Khan, state president of Jamaat e Islami Hind visited the place immediately and met local leaders. Besides local Muslim shopkeepers, he also met the jewelers and other Hindu shopkeepers and urged them to maintain normalcy and open their shops.
He later also met DCP Vinayak Deshmukh and appreciated the prompt police action that has helped in ‘normalization’ of the situation.