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'Police abetted a riotous mob'

By Our Special Correspondent

AHMEDABAD May 31 . The Vadodara City Police Commissioner, D. D. Tuteja, has ordered an inquiry into allegation that police aided and abetted a violent mob in attacking and ransacking a Muslim colony in the trouble-prone Bawamanpura locality under the Panigate police station.

The local Muslims, in a fax message to K.P.S. Gill, security adviser to the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, alleged that a mob set fire to a shop outside the Memon colony and when the local people sought help, the policemen joined hands with the mob to attack the colony.

The message, sent by a local resident, Babubhai Shaikh, an advocate, claimed that the mob, including some policemen, attacked the Madani Masjid, damaged its glass panes and ransacked it. It later attacked some houses.

Police said rival groups were indulging in stone-throwing and the police dispersed them. The glasses of the mosque could have been damaged in the stone-throwing and the Memon colony was not raided by police.

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