Groups clash outside Madrassa in Surat

SURAT: Two groups from different communities clashed outside a Madrassa in Pal locality of Adajan police station on Tuesday night.
The groups resorted to stone pelting after alleged harassment of a woman by some students from the Madrassa. On being alerted police rushed to the spot and controlled the situation.
Police registered two separate complaints from different groups in Adajan police station on Wednesday following the incident.Police booked a group of around 200 people of whom 18 are identified while others are yet to get identified. The accused were booked following a complaint lodged by a 39-year-old woman resident of Luhar Moholla in Pal. The accused were booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code for rioting and harassment of woman.
The woman alleged in her complaint that some students were making indecent signs to her from a window of Markazi Darul Uloom Madrassa on Tuesday night. Later, she went to complain about the incident to the Maulvi along with her family, where they were attacked by a group a people present in the Madrassa and were left injured badly.
In another complaint, police booked a group of around 150 people of which seven are identified. Abdul Gafur Shaikh, trustee of the Madrassa lodged a compliant for which the accused were booked for rioting and attacking. On Tuesday night, administrator of Madrassa Maulvi Shakil heard noise of stones being pelted at door of the Madrassa. Seven youth entered in the Madrassa with sticks and iron rods when Shaikh opened the gate to check. They injured seven students and left threatened to kill others.
"When the seven accused left Madrassa, a group of around 150 standing outside on road started pelting stone on Madrassa," Shaikh alleged in his complaint.