Ballia sources have reported that the incident comes amid an ongoing spate of incidents targeting statues and busts of known figures across the country. Accordingly Station House Officer, Nagra, Ram Dinesh Tiwari, said the statue was damaged and a poster was also found pasted on it. Recently the police have lodged a case against unidentified persons on a complaint by Kharuav village chief Dushyant Singh.
Moreover the officer said that the matter is being investigated. Further according to sources Tiwari said no arrests have been made and the vandalized of the Hanuman statue comes after a series of incidents targeting statues and busts across the country.
Moreover in Kolkata, a bust of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee
was damaged yesterday following the razing of statues of Soviet icon Vladimir
Illyich Lenin in Tripura. Further the bust of Dravidian movement founder E V
Ramasamy Periyar in Tamilnadu's Vellore was also desecrated triggering
widespread protests across the state.
