Another Hindu temple gets vandalised in Canada
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Mumbai: Canadian police informed that a Hindu temple was vandalised in Canada’s Ontario on Wednesday with anti-Hindu and anti-India graffiti, The Indian Express reported.
The Windsor police said that it had started an investigation into the matter and is in pursuit of two suspects. A statement by the police read that on April 5, officers were dispatched to a Hindu temple in the 1700 block of Northway Avenue after an alert of vandalism. Officers recorded that anti-Hindu and anti-India graffiti was sprayed in black on the outer walls of the establishment, it said.
In a video, one person could be seen committing the vandalism while the other was keeping watch, police added.
Police described the suspects that one of them wore a black sweater, black pants with a small white logo on the left leg and black and white high-top running shoes. The other one wore black pants, a sweatshirt, black shoes and white socks, police said.
They have asked the residents next to the temple to check their home CCTV systems between 11 pm and 1 am local time and inform the Mortality Unit if there is anything.
There were other incidents of temple vandalism in Canada this year, including the one in Mississauga in February. After that incident, the Consulate General of India in Toronto tweeted, “We strongly condemn the defacing of Ram Mandir in Mississauga with anti-India graffiti. We have requested Canadian authorities to investigate the incident and take prompt action on perpetrators.”
Before that anti-India graffiti appeared on the Gauri Shankar temple in Brampton, creating an uproar.