City in IndiaUdaipur, apply confinement after two Muslims beheaded a Hindu tailor who was known to support insults Muhammad the Prophet.
AFP reported, the strict rules include the establishment of a curfew for residents living in the city of Udaipur.
The government has also deployed 600 additional personnel to secure Udaipur. In addition, authorities have also cut internet access in a number of areas in the state of Rajasthan.
Why did the state government of Rajashtan have to declare a state of emergency and implement a lockdown in the city of Udaipur?
The state government took this step to prevent the unrest from spreading from Udaipur to cities in the state of Rajastan.
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The Hindu tailor’s beheading began when the victim shared a post that appeared to support Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma. Sharma had mentioned the relationship between the Prophet and his wife on television.
The victim has since received death threats.
Once the attackers came to the shop, where she used to sew, disguised as customers. They then attacked him with a large knife.
Authorities then rushed to deploy additional police to Udaipur to quell the unrest.
Religious sentiment in India has grown since Narendra Modi became prime minister. In one report, he even said he had turned India into an authoritarian Hindu nationalist state.
Other cases linked to openly anti-Islamic sentiments have also occurred through state tools.
One of them took place when an Indian court ruled that wearing the hijab was not an important tenet of Islam. The decision came after several Muslim female students demanded their right to wear the hijab on the Karnataka campus.
Then there were also police officers who destroyed houses on suspicion of being Muslims after clashes between Muslims and Hindus shortly after the Ram Navara festival.
From the number of cases, it appears that the often hostile parties are Hindu radicals and are supported by the government.
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