Sai Baba idol demolition: Delhi Police arrest man who wielded the hammer
Sai Baba idol demolition: Delhi Police arrest man who wielded the hammer
Scroll.in had first reported about the demolition of the idol from the Purana Shiv Mandir in Shahpur Jat on March 25. Updated 3 hours ago A photo collage showing the demolition of the Saibaba idol in Shahpur Jat in New Delhi. | Screenshots from videos circulating on social media.
The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a 54-year-old real estate businessman, Padam Panwar, for demolition of a Sai Baba idol at a temple in Shahpur Jat locality of the city,
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One of the men seen calling Sai Baba Muslim while supervising the removal of his idol has said that the video was fake. However, the militant Hindutva leader has congratulated him.
Padam Panwar (in blue) and the Sai Baba idol in a screengrab from a video showing the removal of the idol.
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New Delhi: The Delhi Police is investigating the removal of a Sai Baba idol from a temple in south Delhi’s Hauz Khas after videos of men demolishing it and alleging that he was a “Muslim” were circulated online and led to devotees filing a complaint.
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The demolition is inspired by the same ideas that animate attacks on religious minorities, say scholars. Apr 04, 2021 · 06:30 am An idol of Sai Baba was demolished in a temple in Delhi on March 25. | Screenshots from videos circulating on social media.
First, he instructs a worker to uproot the idol with a crowbar, then he takes a hammer to it five times. “He is no god, he died in 1918,” the middle-aged man declares, looking into the camera. “He was Muslim.”
“Mullah hai,” says another voice in the background, using a pejorative term for Muslims.