Tension gripped a locality in the city on Tuesday evening after an unidentified person allegedly slapped a Muslim youth for not saying ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ during a Bajrang Dal protest against the terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims. This happened after local Bajrang Dal activists had scheduled a protest near Parizat chowk where they were to burn an effigy. It was alleged that some Bajrang Dal activists started raising slogans of ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ and asked a Muslim youth returning after offering namaz to do the same. “No one from Bajrang Dal manhandled anyone. We are not aware what happened after that,” Kapil Vats, Hisar unit leader of Bajrang Dal, said.

Source: Hindustan Times July 12, 2017 06:22 UTC