Our Correspondent
Gurugram, August 7
Tension gripped Pahari village near Pataudi today after a statue of a martyred Army man installed in a local temple was damaged.
Some other idols were also damaged in the temple by unidentified persons. The villagers staged a protest but were pacified by the police.
Early morning today, villagers found that the statue of Anil Kumar (martyred in 2007) and idol of Radha-Krishna installed in the local temple were damaged.
They called the police and on the complaint of Sarpanch Pradeep Kumar, an FIR was registered against unidentified persons under Section 295 (defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class) of IPC at Pataudi police station. When the villagers staged a protest, a police team headed by Rajesh Kumar, DCP (Manesar), and Rajesh Prajapati, SDM, Pataudi, went there and pacified them