DeTect: No communal angle to priest’s assault in Haryana
Alt News found a newspaper report from Nov 2020 which said youths in Dhabi Kalan village in Fatehabad district of Haryana had assaulted a temple priest for refusing to keep cricket bats in a temple, after which the police arrested the accused.
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NEW DELHI: A video of a man beating a temple priest with a bat has gone viral with a message, “Video of a fanatic Muslim beating up a Hindu temple priest”.
Alt News found a newspaper report from Nov 2020 which said youths in Dhabi Kalan village in Fatehabad district of Haryana had assaulted a temple priest for refusing to keep cricket bats in a temple, after which the police arrested the accused. There is no communal angle to the episode, as they all belong to the same faith.