An Islamist mob led by a man named Sihab Uddin vandalized the yagnasthal (place for doing yagna) in Assam’s Karimganj district. The mob also attacked Hindu devotees and the Pujari. The incident took place in South Karimganj’s Nilambazar Kalibari Mandir.

Sihab Uddin was attempting to illegally increase his land area by grabbing the Mandir’s land. He built a tubewell at the Mandir entrance for this purpose. When the Mandir committee requested him to remove the same, he and his Islamist followers desecrated the Mandir and vandalized the yagnasthal. The violent mob did not stop at this and went on to attack both the devotees and members of the Mandir committee including the Pujari.

The police have arrested Sihab Uddin while other Islamists have managed to escape. The police are on the lookout for absconders. Hindu organizations including RSS and VHP have demanded action against the culprits.

Karimganj is one of the districts on the Assam-Nepal border where the Muslim population has increased by approximately 32 per cent and police have recorded active Islamist infiltration.

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