New Delhi: Nine people have been booked by the Bidar Police for allegedly trespassing into Mahmud Gawan madrasa, a heritage site and performing puja during Dasara festivities on Wednesday night.
According to reports, the mob also chanted slogans of “Jai Shri Ram” and “Hindu Dharam Jai.”
Police said, mob broke the lock of the madrasa and entered the campus.
Additional SP Mahesh Meghannavar said the situation is under control.
Karnataka | Bidar police booked nine people for allegedly trespassing into Mahmud Gawan madrasa, a heritage site & performing puja during Dasara festivities yesterday; Members of Muslim community staged a protest
The situation is under control: Additional SP Mahesh Meghannavar pic.twitter.com/8Gw68IpRrg
— ANI (@ANI) October 7, 2022
Chief of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, Asaduddin Owaisi Tweeted the visuals and said that BJP is promoting such activity only to demean Muslims.
Visuals from historic Mahmud Gawan masjid & madrasa, Bidar, #Karnataka (5th October). Extremists broke the gate lock & attempted to desecrate. @bidar_police @BSBommai how can you allow this to happen? BJP is promoting such activity only to demean Muslims pic.twitter.com/WDw1Gd1b93
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) October 6, 2022
Here is how social media condemned the act:
This cannot be tolerate at all how can Bidar Distrtict Police and 40% CM can be silent on this Issue
Visuals from historic Mahmud Gawan masjid & madrasa, Bidar, #Karnataka yesterday(5th October).That too in the presence of police If this matter cannot be taken seriously 1/2 pic.twitter.com/3zFCSc2L1g— mohd younus (@mohdyou14316414) October 6, 2022
Madrasa Mahmud Gawan, a historic monument in Bidar, Karnataka was forcibly entered by mob from a Dasara procession of Hindus. Trespassers barged into the madrasa and performed puja on Thursday. This college was built by Bahmani Empire vezir and scholar, Mahmud Gawan in 1460
— Muslimaah (@Rukhsanajilani) October 7, 2022
Visuals from historic Mahmud Gawan masjid & madrasa, Bidar, #Karnataka (5th October). Extremists broke the gate lock & attempted to desecrate. Bidar District Police Basavaraj Bommai how can you allow this to happen? BJP is promoting such activity only to demean Muslims pic.twitter.com/gz5mXteHry
— AIMIM Kanpur (@kanpur_aimim) October 6, 2022
Visuals from historic Mahmud Gawan masjid & madrasa, Bidar, #Karnataka (5th October). Extremists broke the gate lock & attempted to desecrate. @bidar_police @BSBommai how can you allow this to happen? BJP is promoting such activity only to demean Muslims pic.twitter.com/o5EysJEgD6
— Abdul rahman Shaiks (@rahman_shaiks) October 6, 2022
Karnataka – Sanghis barged into the madrassa of 550 years old Mahmud Gawan, and raised objectionable slogans, abusing Muslims,
madrasa’s folly,It was placed on the list by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site in 2014. pic.twitter.com/RSt2AqmyzR
— Qazi Ziauddi (@QaziziauddinR) October 6, 2022
Visuals from historic Mahmud Gawan masjid & madrasa, Bidar, #Karnataka (5th October). Extremists broke the gate lock & attempted to desecrate. Bidar District Police Basavaraj Bommai how can you allow this to happen? BJP is promoting such activity only to demean Muslims 1/2 pic.twitter.com/6R2khBOai5
— Ashfaq Khan (@AshfaqK12565342) October 6, 2022
Mahmud Gawan Madrasa in Karnataka’s Bidar is a designated heritage site under the Archeological Survey of India. The structure which was built-in the 1460s is also listed among monuments of national importance.
