A group of hammer-wielding vandals severely damaged the mazar of 18th-century Sufi poet Baba Bulleh Shah in Mussoorie on Saturday night, with a minor Hindutva outfit claiming responsibility. Dehradun district police have registered an FIR against three named and a half-dozen unnamed accused on a complaint from the Baba Bulleh Shah Committee, but have said action would be taken only after a probe. ADVERTISEMENTMuslim community leaders in Uttarakhand capital Dehradun, about 40km from Mussoorie, have threatened to march to the mazar (shrine) if arrests aren’t made soon. Bhupendra Chaudhary aka Pinki Chaudhary, president of the Uttar Pradesh-based Hindu Raksha Dal, claimed responsibility for the attack and “thanked” his “team in Uttarakhand”. “The team of Hindu Raksha Dal sent the 70-year-old mazar of Bulleh Shah back to Pakistan,” he wrote on social media.

Source: The Telegraph January 27, 2026 01:23 UTC