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Gujarat News: A man allegedly attempted to burn down a Shankaracharya Math (monastic institution) in Gujarat’s Bharuch town on early Friday and also left behind an ominous message for its priest, threatening to behead him.
According to the police, the culprit tried to set fire to the premises by setting the door ablaze and also left behind some pieces of paper, one which contained a sinister threat for the Math’s priest “Gustakh Pir Ki Saza, Sar Tan Se Juda (punishment for the insolent priest, a beheading)”.
The incident was captured on the CCTV camera installed at the Math and the footage showed a person in black clothes and a white skull cap flinging something towards the door. The culprit then walks up to the door and sets it on fire.
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“Around 5.30 am, a person threw some material on the door of the math in an attempt to set it ablaze. CCTV has captured the act. We have formed various teams to conduct a detailed investigation into the case. An FIR has also been registered in this regard,” a senior police officer said.
“A call was received from the priest following which police rushed to the spot and launched a probe to nab the culprit,” Bharuch district superintendent of police, Mayur Chavda told reporters.
The religious institution is located in the Navchowki Ovara area on the banks of the Narmada river.
Another officer who was at the scene said that an unidentified man hurled three or four pieces of paper towards the door of the math before setting it on fire. The papers had an ominous threat scribbled on them reading, “Gustakh Pir Ki Saza, Sar Tan Se Juda”, he said.
Talking to reporters, the math priest Muktanand Swami said he was on the premises when the incident took place.
Swami said that the Shankaracharya Math and adjoining two temples come under Dwarka Sharda Peeth, which is among the four prominent peeths’ or areas of learning established by the Aadi Sankaracharya.
“When I returned to my math after performing puja at the adjoining temple around 5 am, my neighbour Dilip Dave came running and informed me that a persons was throwing some material on the math’s door. That man then set ablaze the door, which I doused afterwards,” the priest revealed.
Swami said he did not see anyone outside on the street when he tried to find out who had set the door on fire.
“When I checked the CCTV footage, I learnt that a man entered the premises from the river bank and threw some material towards the math and temple. He also threw some pieces of paper towards the door. It was written Sar Tan Se Juda’ (reference to beheading) on those papers,” said Swami.
(With PTI inputs)
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