‘We call for full respect of all religions, ensuring different communities can live in harmony, peace’: UN spokesperson on Udaipur killing

Times of India

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Udaipur killing: We call for full respect of all religions, ensuring different communities can live in harmony, peace, says UN spokesperson

Dujarric said this in response to a question on whether the UN chief has a comment on the "resurgence" of religious tensions in India following the killing of Kanhaiya Lal.Two men, identified as Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad, with a cleaver hacked Lal to death in Udaipur city and posted videos online that said they are avenging an insult to Islam, triggering stray cases of violence in the Rajasthan city, a part of which was placed under curfew