An incident of offending religious sentiments occurred last night, 2 days ahead of the grand Ganesh immersion procession. It is said that some miscreants tore off pages of the Holy book and scattered over the road during the Ganesh immersion procession which was taken out at Shah Ali Banda of old city area. Members of local minority community retaliated in protest.
Police intervened in time and prevented any untoward incident. Police later removed the scattered pages of the Holy book. The local people told that some miscreants were raising provocative slogans amidst the procession.
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