Five men, on Tuesday evening, vandalized Asaduddin Owaisi’s official government residence at Ashoka Road, New Delhi. The men are supposed to be members of the group- Hindu Sena. Delhi Police as of now have detained them.

The incident took place on Tuesday evening around 04:00 pm in which five people belonging to the organization Hindu Sena vandalized Hyderabad MP and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) supremo Asaduddin Owaisi’s official government residence located in posh Lutyens Delhi. As per reports, before vandalizing the property, the members of Hindu Sena protested outside Owaisi’s residence. As per police sources, a PCR call was received and then the officials rushed to his residence to arrest people involved in this incident.

Reacting strongly to the incident, Owaisi alleged that the mob chanted communal slogans and even threatened to kill him before vandalizing the property. Taking it to Twitter, Asaduddin Owaisi in a series of tweets hit out at the government. He wrote ‘My Delhi residence was vandalized today by radicalized goons and as usual they came in a mob and were armed with axes and sticks and pelted stone at my residence. My caretaker of the house, Raju was assaulted and the mob even shouted communal slogans and I hope action will be taken.” Tagging Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh in two different tweets he wrote, “ There were 13 people and my residence have been attacked for the third time and last time my neighbor was then Home Minister Rajnath Singh. EC is right to my door and PM’s residence is 8 minutes away still it happened and if an MP’s house is not safe then what message is Amit Shah sending.”

New Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police, Deepak Yadav said, as of now, Police has arrested five people for their role in the incident and a case has been registered against the accused under sections 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act at the Parliament Street police station. The accused are from Mandoli area of North-East Delhi. 

The accused have been said to be angered with Owaisi’s alleged Anti-Hindu remarks and the president of Hindu Sena, Lalit Kumar said that we wanted to teach the Hyderabad MP a lesson for speaking against the Hindus. 

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