The Times of India
Bhojshala turned violent, police use lathicharge to disburse crowd
By Bagish K Jha, TNN | Feb 15, 2013, 02.19 PM IST
INDORE: Police had to use lathicharge and teargas to disperse crowd at Bhojshal on Friday at Dhar around 55km from Indore.
According to direction of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Hindus were allowed to offer puja at Bhojsala from morning to 12.30pm and afterward three hours were allotted to Muslims for offering Friday prayer. But huge crowd of Hindus were pouring at the dispute site since morning and Bhojshala Puja Samiti was not ready to vacate the place for Muslim community in the afternoon, even as large number of Muslims had arrived at Bhojshala. Finally, police had to use lathicharge and teargas to disperse the crowd.
Police took five Muslims out of huge gathering inside Bhojshala in high security to allow them offer prayer.
Bhojshala was in tension for past one week as Hindus and Muslims were adamant on offering prayer on Friday which happens to be Basant Panchami.
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