Statue of Chandra Shekhar Azad vandalised

Hisar, Aug 23 (PTI) Tension prevailed in Parijat Chowkand Nagori Gate area here this morning after a statue ofmartyr Chandra Shekhar Azad was found vandalised. This is the second time that the statue, which was set upby shopkeepers in 2012, had been found vandalised. It is suspected that the statue was damaged by someanti-social elements, police said. A case has been registered by city police under section295 (destroying, damaging or defiling a place of worship orsacred object with intent to insult religious sentiments ofany class of persons) of IPC on a complaint of shopkeeperShelender Chowdhary. CCTV footage of the area showed three persons coming on abike last night and damaging the statue. Chandra Shekhar Azad was a firebrand revolutionary leaderHe was instrumental in carrying out the Kakori train robberyin 1926 and assassination of John Poyantz Saunders in 1928 atLahore to avenge the killing of Lala Lajpat Rai. PTI CORR SUNDV