Leaders of different political parties today demanded immediate arrest of the accused in the recent communal violence in Atali village here, even as the affected families refused to return home and continued to stay at the relief camp in Ballabgarh police station.
CPI(M) central committee member Tapan Sinha, accompanied by state party leaders, and MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, who met the affected families, also slammed the governments at the Centre and state and the district administration over the insecurity to the minority community.
Sinha, accompanied by Comrade Surender Singh, Secretary of state wing of the party and a team of party members, accused a certain community of hatching a plan of violence well in advance.
He said that the violence against the minority community that left over 20 houses burnt, was a well thought out and unprovoked attack.
Confusion on the ownership of the land, where a mosque was being constructed, was deliberately being created he said, adding that the land is owned by the Waqf from 1972.
At least five persons were injured and over 15 houses burnt on May 25 night when people from the two communities clashed over construction of the religious structure adjacent to the other community's religious site.
A few years back there used to be a graveyard which was shifted elsewhere since the area became densely inhabited. The graveyard was shifted to a place allotted by the government for the purpose, Sinha said.
He accused the police and administration of not taking enough steps for preventing the riots, first and later, not doing the needful to nab the culprits.
