A new controversy has erupted in Karnataka's Mandya over sanctioning an illegal Muslim cemetery in Hosa Budhanoor village despite the absence of any Muslim population in the surrounding villages.
In Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki some members of Muslim community put up barricades from a kabristan (Muslim burial ground) all the way till a nearby temple.
The Tirunelveli district authorities have imposed a ban on carrying out funeral at a recently built Christian cemetery near the ancient Manimoortheeswaram Uchishta Ganapathy temple
This cemetery, which is believed to be the ancestral graveyard of the Mansoori community was allegedly forcefully occupied by the land mafias a while ago.