Ambedkar statue desecrated in Gujarat's Sihor

Weeks after the house of Constitution architect Babasaheb Ambedkar damaged in Mumbai, a fresh case of desecration with the statue emerges from Gujarat's Bhavnagar on Monday. The miscreants covered the bust with a bucket and placed an empty liquor bottle near it.

Bhavnagar: A statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar was desecrated on Monday in Sihor town in Gujarat's Bhavnagar district, police said.

Someone covered the bust with a bucket and placed an empty liquor bottle near it, the act having been done between midnight and 8 am, an official said.

People of the vicinity approached Sihor police station in the morning after which an FIR was registered against an unidentified person/s under IPC section 295 for defiling a place of worship, the official informed. People later cleaned the bust, he added.

Earlier this month, two miscreants threw stones on glass windows, damaged CCTV cameras and potted plants at the erstwhile home of the Constitution architect, located in Dadar area of Mumbai.

(With inputs from PTI)