A gang on Wednesday vandalized a Hindu temple in Pakistan's Punjab province after a nine-year-old Hindu boy, who allegedly urinated at a local seminary, received bail, a media report said on Thursday. The Pakistan Rangers have been deployed in the area to check the situation.
Besides the vandalization, the mob also blocked the Sukkur-Multan Motorway (M-5), the report added. As per international media reports a case was registered against the minor on July 24 based on a complaint filed by a cleric, Hafiz Muhammad Ibrahim, of the Darul Uloom Arabia Taleemul Quran. The sources added that "some Hindu elders did tender an apology to the seminary administration saying the accused was a minor and mentally challenged". A video clip showing people wielding clubs and rods storming the temple and destroying its glass doors, windows, lights and damaging the ceiling fans have gone viral on social media.
The media reports quoted, “Hundreds of people descended on the temple in Bhong city, some 590 kilometres from Lahore, after a local court granted bail to a 9-year-old Hindu boy who allegedly urinated at a library of the seminary last week.
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