Looting case against Bajrang Dal activists?

By Our Special Correspondent

AHMEDABAD, AUG. 23 . Police have registered a case against a dozen people for alleged looting, but has refused to confirm wheather they were Bajrang Dal activists as claimed by some local residents.

The police claimed that even the complaint did not mention that the attackers belonged to Bajrang Dal. It described them as anti- social elements who were demanding ``haptas'' (share) from small vendors.

The local residents, however, maintained that the Dal activists were raising contributions for the ``Ganesh Mohotasava'' and attacked the small vendors, mostly belonging to the minority community, when they refused the donation.

At least 10 persons, most of them Muslims, were injured and three were hospitalised. The vendors were doing business on the roads in Vatva industrial area.

Some local residents claimed that they could recognise some of the attackers as Bajrang Dal activists.

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