The Hindu : Mob storms temple

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Monday, Feb 17, 2003

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Mob storms temple

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

AHMEDABAD FEB. 16. A 1500-strong mob today stormed the Swaminarayan temple, about 50 km from here, damaging furniture and burning posters following a dispute over who will head the trust which runs the shrine, prompting imposition of indefinite curfew in a village in Gujarat's Kheda district.

The District Superintendent of Police (Kheda), Manoj Agrawal, told PTI over telephone that the mob in Vadtal village was demanding reinstatement of their former Acharya on the highest position of the temple, as chairman of the trust, which manages its affairs.

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