Woman booked for 'hate speech', 50 detained after communal clash in Una

Police have registered a first information report FIR against a rightwing woman activist for her alleged hate speech and detained more than 50 people on the charge of rioting following a communal clash at Una town in Gujarats Gir Somnath that left two persons injured an official said on SundayThe communal clash erupted in a sensitive area of Una town on Saturday night with two groups hurling stones at each other amid tension caused by the speech of one Kajal Hindustani at a Hindu Sammelan organised on the occasion of Ram Navami on Thursday in which she allegedly targeted a minority communityUna town had been on edge since the alleged hate speech With traders keeping markets shut the police and local leaders had on Saturday called for a peace committee meeting involving representatives of both communities who ensured normalcy But hours after the meeting a clash broke out in the communally sensitive area police saidWe have registered two FIRs One is against Kajal Hindustani for hate speech and another against the mob for rioting Superintendent of Police Sripal Sheshma told reportersWe have detained 50 to 60 people and are going through the CCTV footage We are using local intelligence and questioning the detained persons for further action The accused will not be spared and strict action will be taken against them he saidAlso Read Maharashtra 28 people arrested in connection with Kiradpura violencePolice personnel have been deployed in sensitive areas with some of them patrolling and some posted at static points All the officers are available on call and all distress calls are being addressed on an immediate basis he saidTwo State Reserve Police Force SRPF teams have been deployed in Una so far in this case he saidThe leaders participating in the peace committee meeting reached a resolution but the message did not reach the young generation and this led to a small incident of stone pelting police saidPolice carried out combing operations during the night in Una town and seized a number of swords rods and other such objects from some housesMeanwhile the police in Vadodara city of the state on Saturday night arrested a rightwing activist Rohan Shah and some others for hate speech during a Ram Navami procession in the city on Thursday The case against them was registered under sections 153 A promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion race place of birth residence and 34 common intention of the Indian Penal Code IPC Shah is a local leader of the Vishva Hindu Parishad VHPVadodara police said they have also arrested one Mohammad Vora for allegedly posting an edited video on Facebook with the intention of spreading communal enmityMembers of two communities clashed after stones were hurled at two Ram Navami processions in Vadodara on Thursday with the police registering FIRs and arresting dozens of peopleThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever