Tension mounts in Uttar Pradeshs Fatehpur as mob vandalises tomb

Tension mounted in Fatehpur on Monday (August 11, 2025) after Hindu organisations, together with the Bajrang Dal, tried to supply prayers inside an outdated tomb in the Abu Nagar locality underneath the Kotwali Nagar police station, claiming a temple beforehand existed on the website.

Around 1,000 members of right-wing outfits carrying saffron flags barged into the tomb, with some vandalising the construction with sticks. It led to a confrontation with the other facet.

The district administration was compelled to deploy police and the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) in a rush. The police erected barricades across the construction and neighbouring locations to regulate the scenario. Locals stated a number of folks chanting ‘Jai Shree Ram’ climbed onto the roof and put in a saffron flag. The native administration introduced in reinforcements from the Radha Nagar, Husainganj, Malwan, and Jahanabad police stations.

160 folks booked

“The crowd gathered on the disputed tomb website underneath the Kotwali Nagar police station space has been pacified by persuasion, and the miscreants have been recognized. A case has been registered towards 10 named and 150 unknown miscreants who compelled their method into the construction and vandalised the location underneath related sections of regulation at Kotwali Nagar Police Station, and groups have been shaped to arrest all of the accused. The accused can be arrested quickly, and authorized motion can be taken,” stated Anoop Kumar Singh, Superintendent of Police (SP), Fatehpur. 

The controversy started after members of the native Bajrang Dal, Math Mandir Sanrakshan Sangharsh Samiti, and different Hindu outfits stated the construction was a temple to Thakurji (Lord Krishna) and Lord Shiva, allegedly over a thousand years outdated, and had a Shivling.

Plans to carry out prayers on the website had been introduced earlier. Some native BJP leaders additionally supported the announcement. “We will supply prayers right here at midday. The administration will be unable to cease us. In The Hindu faith, nobody can take away your proper to supply prayers. It is our temple, which they’re referring to as a tomb,” Dharmendra Singh, a Bajrang Dal activist, stated this morning, earlier than the strain began.