07, Aug 2014

Muzaffarnagar/saharanpur/bijnor | August 7, 2014 8:44 am
A ninth of all communal incidents since May 16 have been Dalits vs Muslims, of which 70% were near 12 bypoll seats.
On Monday morning, a minor argument over widening a village road resulted in a violent clash between Muslims and Dalits in Katauli Kala in the Deogaon police station area of Azamgarh district. SP (City), Vinod Kumar, said there was no history of tension between the two communities in that area.
However, according to diary entry at Rani Ki Sarai police station in Sonvar village of the same district, on July 4, an argument between a Muslim family and a Dalit family over the boundaries of their fields resulted in a communal clash in which eight people were injured.