In an appalling incident, 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 the unidentified person/s under IPC section 295 for defiling a place of worship, the official informed. People later cleaned the bust, he added.
