Haldwani Land Encroachment

A total of 107 people, including several women were arrested in the case. The Banbhulpura violence where 5 persons lost lives was the first instance where internet was shut down in the city.

The police post was inaugurated by women personnel who were injured in the attack by the Islamist mob in the violence on 8th February.

During the Haldwani violence, loca journalists revealed that the Islamist mob singled out Hindu journalists by checking their IDs before attacking them

Speaking at a public event in Haridwar, CM Dhami stated, "The spot where our police personnel, especially women personnel and journalists were brutally attacked and assaulted by an unruly mob for doing their duty, we will build a police station.

This was, however, not the first time that tensions have flared in Haldwani, Uttarakhand. Radical Islamists have targeted this place earlier too

The journalist further added that the colony where the demolition exercise was undertaken is illegal. He said that action taken by the authorities against the illegally constructed madarsa-mosque on government land was in compliance with the Uttarakhand High Court order.

On Thursday the Uttarakhand High Court refused to grant relief to a PIL seeking stay of demolition of illegal madarsa and mosque in Haldwani

It is worth noting that this is not the first time that Haldwani has been engulfed in protests and violence over government action against illegal encroachments. In January last year, a massive protest had erupted in Haldwani over the issue of the removal of encroachment from the land owned by the Indian Railways.

After officials razed an illegal madarsa in Uttarakhand's Haldwani, miscreants threw stones at police officers and set police vehicles on fire

From Nuh anti-Hindu violence to the ISIS module of AMU, to the Haldwani's Land Jihad, OpIndia conducted ground reports on a host of issues that the media normally chooses to either gloss over or distort.