By Danish Khan, Muslim Mirror,
Hyderabad, May 9: In a shameful incident of sectarian violence six people were injured when activists of Tablighi Jamaat and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat attacked each other with rods and sharp weapons over dispute of ownership of a mosque.
This shameful incident took place in Kamareddy town of Andhra Pradesh; local police has registered cases against 11 persons out of which six have been arrested.
During Namaz-e-Maghrib at Masjid Imamuddin located at driver colony in Kamareddy town, situation became tense over a dispute regarding Ijtema of Tablighi Jamaat and Dua program of Ahle Sunnatul Wal Jamaat. Soon the verbal dispute took the shape of violence in the mosque where activists from both the groups attacked each other with lathis, iron rods, and bricks.
Imam and Khateeb of the mosque who belonged to Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat were among two seriously injured persons. Police immediately shifted six injured persons to local hospital, from there two critically wounded were shifted to Hyderabad for better care.
Soon after the clashes erupted police took the effective control of the mosque, and pickets were deployed around the mosque and local hospital where the injured were undergoing treatment. Police have arrested six persons, three of them each from Tablighi Jamaat and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat.