As many as 40 shops were shut down earlier this week and shop owners belonging to the minority community "had left town" amid brewing communal strife, a report said. The police, however, denied this claim.
This is possibly the first time that a communal murder has taken place in the state. And in the past few years too, several areas have seen a rise in communal tensions. But none of the Congress MLAs have stood up against these attacks on the minorities.