Church attack: Cops detain 3, Peace party protest against anti minority indian police

[magudi]

AGRA: Agra police on Wednesday detained three men on suspicion that they were involved in vandalising St Mary's Church at Pratappura in the cantonment area of the city on April 16.

SSP Rajesh Modak said the three men, identified right now only as Nasir, Zafar and Zaffaruddin, and all between 30-35 years, had been held as they were present in the area at the time of the incident, but could not satisfactorily explain what they were doing there. Their cell phones had recorded their location. "They will be released if it is found that they were innocent of the incident," the SSP said.

As news spread of the three men being held and questioned by the police, members of the Peace Party led a demonstration at the district collectorate, claiming police were biased and had detained "poor men living away from their families, with no one to defend them."

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State general secretary Jahangir Alvi of the Peace Party said the men detained were workers at roadside eateries in Nai ki Mandi, and lived in a Muslim graveyard in Panchkuiya locality of Agra.

The men reportedly said they were returning home after attending a fair at Bijlighar. However, cops were suspicious that they took such a long detour to get home, when there was a route that was just about three km long, through the Sadarbatti locality. The three men had chosen instead to take a 10-km route through Pratappura, where the church is located.

Alvi said, "They detained the wrong men - these are poor men living alone in Agra. No one will rush to defend them, and the police can brand them culprits easily, getting done with their

Agra church attack: Cops detain 3 - The Times of India

 

[Sky lord]

Yes why arresting innocent Muslims . this is brutality by Indians . Christians church got attacked and you arrest Muslims ?

How sad .

In Pakistan Christians to the same .

So muslims are automatically innocent? They were arrested because they could not explain their movements and cell phone records place them at the scene of the crime. If questioning proves them innocent they will be let go.
This is not Pakistan.

 

[Sky lord]

But we will get what we need . Pakistan or India or give us East Pakistan we lost. Muslims are innocent .

I can't make out what you are trying to say. Perhaps what you need is your medication ?

 

[Anees]

Yes why arresting innocent Muslims . this is brutality by Indians . Christians church got attacked and you arrest Muslims ?

How sad .

In Pakistan Christians to the same .

If the culprit is Hindu , Muslim or Christian who ever done it should be punish ..

Surprise now a days Pakistan had become spokesperson for Muslim all over the world .

If similar incident happen in Xinjiang & Uygur in china or in Srilanka , Saudi , Syria or in Malaysia you can see the double-stand
(they say- There country there rule )

 

[SecularNationalist]

Hindutva terrorism grips india once again

 

[Gunsnroses]

Troll alert!!!

 

[Sky lord]

Hindutva terrorism grips india once again

So Muslims attack a church and you blame Hindutva? This is Pakistani madrasa logic ?

They have not been charged yet, but their cell phone records indicate they were at the scene of the crime at the time it happened, they may be innocent and have a good explanation, if so they will be released.

Why don't you Give us our Lost Land East Pakistan AKA Bangladesh . Or we will take it

You want Bangladesh ? Go take it, I don't think India has any problem with that, so long as you guys don't jump over the fence into India.

 

[SecularNationalist]

So Muslims attack a church and you blame Hindutva? This is Pakistani madrasa logic ?

They have not been charged yet, but their cell phone records indicate they were at the scene of the crime at the time it happened, they may be innocent and have a good explanation, if so they will be released.

Sorry i apologize in that case .I thought this is another usual church attack by RSS members.

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Sorry i apologize in that case .I thought this is another usual church attack by RSS members.

Dude, that was hilarious

 

[Echo_419]

Agra church attack: Cops detain 3 - The Times of India

We should wait ubtill the investigation is complete

 

[Dalit]

It's a conspiracy against motherland India. ISI did it!

 

[SecularNationalist]

Dude, that was hilarious

Human beings make mistakes

 

[wolfschanzze]

Church needs to know BHARAT is a HINDU Rasthra, You cant spread YOUR RELIGION HERE!

 

[Bang Galore]

Spurned lover attacked Agra church: Cops
Ishita Mishra,TNN | Apr 24, 2015, 01.50 AM IST

A file photo of St Mary's Church in Agra that was vandalized. Cops say a spurned lover was responsible for the attack. (PTI photo)

AGRA: From communal rage to romance, the Agra church attack incident of April 16 took a strange turn on Friday with the arrest of a Muslim youth who has reportedly admitted that he vandalized the place of worship because his love for a Christian girl went unrequited.

Top sources in the police told TOI that Haider Ali has "confessed" that he let loose his anger at the St Mary's Church because a Christian girl he loved, and who frequented the church, had failed to return his affection.

The girl, whose name TOI is withholding, had in the fortnight before the attack suddenly stopped coming to the church. In frustration, Ali said he hit out at the statutes of Infant Jesus and Mother Mary.

A senior IPS officer involved with investigation in the case said police had detained Ali, in his mid-20s, and that he lives in the city's Sultanpura locality, near Eidgah colony.


"Haider has been detained on the basis of his mobile phone location," the officer said. "During interrogation, he confessed that he vandalized the church on April 16. The man claimed that he fell in love with a Christian girl who refused to marry him citing the difference in their faiths. He couldn't bear the rejection of his lover and decided to take revenge in this way."

According to Ali's confessional statement to the cops, he met the girl, in her 20s, near the church some four months ago. Initially she agreed to be with him, but later broke the relationship saying her family would not accept the affair. She then stopped coming to the church altogether.

Though Ali has claimed he was alone during the attack on the church, policemen have refused to buy his version as they feel he could not have wreaked all that destruction alone and in such a short time.

SP (city) Sameer Saurabh, who said the police had indeed detained a man by the name of Haider Ali on Thursday, refused to give out further details. DIG Lakshmi Singh said police expect the case to be cracked soon.

Spurned lover attacked Agra church: Cops - The Times of India