After a senior police officer refused to release the 22 men, VHP leader Leela Karan Sharma threatened a “repeat of the 2008 Amarnath agitation”, which had sparked communal violence in the region. Twenty-two people detained by the police following violence in Jammu were released Wednesday after the VHP threatened a “repeat of the 2008 Amarnath agitation”. The 22 were arrested after violence erupted in Jammu Tuesday over a 29-year-old man, Yasir Alfaz, allegedly kicking a Shiva idol at a temple. The youth, who is of unsound mind according to police,…
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