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'Yagna' outside Qutub Minar

NEW DELHI JAN. 21. As many as 120 activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Hindu Sena, including the Delhi VHP secretary, Arun Verma, and the Hindu Sena general secretary, Rohit Sharma, were detained today when they tried to enter the Qutub Minar premises to perform a `yagna' before a Ganesha idol sculpted in a wall of the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque situated at the tower's base.

Claiming that the mosque was constructed after demolishing 27 Hindu and Jain temples in the 16th century, they forcibly performed the `Devmukti yagna' outside the premises before they were rounded up by the police.

UNI

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