Masque
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Unidentified miscreants allegedly ransacked a mosque at Nayanpur in cityโ€™s Ganeshguri area on Sunday night, triggering tension in the area.

Eyewitnesses said a group six-seven youths vandalized the mosque located. Nayanpur is less than two kilometres from Dispur police station in Guwahati.

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โ€œA group of six-seven bike-borne youths forcefully entered the masque and broke the furniture of it,โ€ said an eyewitness.

The incident took place at time when a section of people trying to communalise the recent rape cases in the state.

โ€œThe incident has occurred in such a time when certain elements are communalising the incidents of sexual violence taking place in the state,โ€ said a local.

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He said that there might have some design behind this incident. โ€œIt is hard to believe that the incident of masque vandalism and communalisation of rape are co-incidental. There must have a design behind it,โ€ he said.

The state has witnessed sudden spurt in crime against woman with several cases of rape and molestation have been reported during last two weeks.

An 11-year-old class V student was gang-raped and killed at Lalunggaon under Bordowa police station in Nagaon district by three miscreants including two juveniles on March 23.