Both Hindu and Muslim communities of Udaipur have expressed their respective concerns on the incident of Saturday, 13^th April that resulted in communal clashes reported in the Mulla Talai area.

The tension broke out when an anti-religious comment posted on Facebook was ‘shared’ by a person from Udaipur. A group of people attacked a restaurant owner on the suspicion of his involvement on sharing the comment.

Today, nearly 13 different groups from the Hindu community presented a memorandum and protested outside the Collectorate.

Protestors claimed that there is a Facebook group which often posts anti-Hindu remarks on the site hurting their religious sentiments. A memorandum to the effect was also given to the District Administration a few days ago but no action was taken yet, complained the protestors.

Pointing towards the 13^th April incident, the group demanded more police patrolling in the sensitive areas by establishing permanent Chowkis and installing CCTVs cameras.

On the other side, a press conference was organized by the Muslim Mahasabha, Rajasthan to put forward the issue and demanded strict action against the accused who had shared the malicious comment on his/her Facebook profile.

Younus Shiekh, promoter of Muslim Mahasabha told media personnel that they will protest by holding black color flag in the coming up congress rally.

4 Arrested in Communal Clash

Four more people were arrested today for attacking two girls and a man in the 13^th April communal clash at Udaipur’s Mulla Talai area under Ambamata Police Station.

Vikram alias Vicky Harijan and Ganpat Lal Harijan are arrested under the charges of attacking 12-year-old girls Shaheena and Shahista while they were going in an auto rickshaw. The girls received injuries on the head.

In another case of sword attack, Zubair Hussain and his brother Karamat Hussain were arrested for attacking Bhanwar Singh on 13^th April.

Till now 14 people are already sent to judicial custody on charges of rioting, assault, etc.