The miscreants as per the police utilized a grinder machine to sever the idol's hand. ACP Cantt, Abhay Pratap Mall, said that the situation has been resolved and a new idol at the temple has been erected.
It’s clear that tempers in both the Hindu and the Muslim communities are high and it would take a lot to restore normalcy. Men from both sides said that the talk of Hindu-Muslim unity in the area was a farce.
Congress mouthpiece National Herald published an article by one Humra Quraishi which could only be called the most dishonest piece of reporting one has seen on the Hauz Qazi Durga Temple desecration incident
On June 30, a parking row escalated into a communal flare-up which saw a Muslim mob desecrating and vandalising a Hindu temple in the Hauz Qazi neighbourhood at Chandni Chowk area.