The Wire reported on June 20 that four persons, including a local official of the Bharatiya Janata Party, had been detained after the arson attack on a mosque in Bahadurpur, which is located in the district of Alwar in Rajasthan.
Fifty local men have been charged by the police with unlawful assembly, promoting enmity between different groups on the basis of religion, deliberately outraging religious feelings, causing damage to property, criminal intimidation, and intentional insult with the intent to provoke breach of peace. The police have registered a first information report (FIR) against the men.
Fourteen of the defendants are listed in the FIR: Raman Gulati, Bhavik Joshi, Raghuveer Saini, Manohar Lal Saini, Girdhari Lal Joshi, Avtar Sardar, Ratan Saini, Babulal Saini, Khusi Gurjar, Braham Muni, Subhash, Kailash, Parmod, and Manohar.
One of the defendants, Raman Gulati, is said to have previously served as the sub-district head for the BJP’s Alwar division, as reported by The Wire.
A crowd of Hindus assembled on the 20th of June around three in the afternoon and set fire to the mosque, which resulted in the destruction of prayer mats and curtains. The windows of the building had their glass damaged by the crowd as well.
In addition to this, the perpetrators could be heard yelling anti-Muslim and Jai Shri Ram chants.
