COIMBATORE: Tension prevailed at Gandhipuram in Coimbatore on Monday evening when members of the Hindu Munnani picked up a quarrel with an auto driver named Shahul Hameed who was walking past a pro-Citizenship Amendment Act protest venue.
Hameed, in response, called his friends, around 40 Muslim auto drivers, who arrived at the venue in around 20 autorickshaws.
On sensing trouble, the city police deployed around 100 personnel at the spot. They sent away Hameed and his friends.
The auto drivers went to Kaattoor police station and lodged a complaint against the Hindu Munnani members. In their complaint, they alleged that Hindu Munnani members had used inappropriate words against them and had attacked them.
Deputy commissioner of law and order L Balaji Saravanan said they would inquire into the complaint.
Later, Hindu Munnani members too lodged a police complaint against the Muslim men who, they said, had tried to film them erecting the canopy at the protest venue. They said the men had used inappropriate words at them and had threatened them.
On Monday evening, members of the Hindu Munnani began an indefinite protest on the Dr Nanjappa Road against the indefinite ‘Coimbatore’s Shaheen Bagh’ protest, being staged by Muslim organisations, at Aathupaalam in the city.
Police said when the protest was about to begin, Shahul Hameed, an auto rickshaw driver from Selvapuram near the city, walked by the protest venue, while taking over his mobile phone. “Hindu Munnai members confronted him and picked up a quarrel with him. They accused him of clicking pictures of the protest using his mobile phone,” said a police official.
Following this, Hameed called his friends, who arrived at the spot in their autorickshaws, and picked up a quarrel with Hindu Munnani members. This led to tense scenes and a noisy quarrel.
On information, police personnel rushed to the spot and pacified both the parties. A posse of 100 police personnel, including armed reserve police personnel equipped with teargas, have been deployed at the spot. Police personnel have also been posted on the Gandhipuram flyover too.
Hindu Munnani members said they would not call off their demonstration till the ‘Coimbatore’s Shaheen Bagh’ protest was called off.
C Dhanapal, a Hindu Munnani functionary, said they had started the indefinite demonstration with the motive of ‘Save Kovai’. He alleged that Muslim migrants from Bangladesh and Pakistan had settled in the city. “They should be ousted. Also, as there is a false propaganda against the Citizenship Amendment Act, we are demonstrating in favour of the Act,” he said.
BJP, RSS and VHP have extended support to demonstration.
Hameed, in response, called his friends, around 40 Muslim auto drivers, who arrived at the venue in around 20 autorickshaws.
On sensing trouble, the city police deployed around 100 personnel at the spot. They sent away Hameed and his friends.
The auto drivers went to Kaattoor police station and lodged a complaint against the Hindu Munnani members. In their complaint, they alleged that Hindu Munnani members had used inappropriate words against them and had attacked them.
Deputy commissioner of law and order L Balaji Saravanan said they would inquire into the complaint.
Later, Hindu Munnani members too lodged a police complaint against the Muslim men who, they said, had tried to film them erecting the canopy at the protest venue. They said the men had used inappropriate words at them and had threatened them.
On Monday evening, members of the Hindu Munnani began an indefinite protest on the Dr Nanjappa Road against the indefinite ‘Coimbatore’s Shaheen Bagh’ protest, being staged by Muslim organisations, at Aathupaalam in the city.
Police said when the protest was about to begin, Shahul Hameed, an auto rickshaw driver from Selvapuram near the city, walked by the protest venue, while taking over his mobile phone. “Hindu Munnai members confronted him and picked up a quarrel with him. They accused him of clicking pictures of the protest using his mobile phone,” said a police official.
Following this, Hameed called his friends, who arrived at the spot in their autorickshaws, and picked up a quarrel with Hindu Munnani members. This led to tense scenes and a noisy quarrel.
On information, police personnel rushed to the spot and pacified both the parties. A posse of 100 police personnel, including armed reserve police personnel equipped with teargas, have been deployed at the spot. Police personnel have also been posted on the Gandhipuram flyover too.
Hindu Munnani members said they would not call off their demonstration till the ‘Coimbatore’s Shaheen Bagh’ protest was called off.
C Dhanapal, a Hindu Munnani functionary, said they had started the indefinite demonstration with the motive of ‘Save Kovai’. He alleged that Muslim migrants from Bangladesh and Pakistan had settled in the city. “They should be ousted. Also, as there is a false propaganda against the Citizenship Amendment Act, we are demonstrating in favour of the Act,” he said.
BJP, RSS and VHP have extended support to demonstration.
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