It emerged on Tuesday that India rushed hundreds of security personnel to a district in the South after riots saw mobs burn vehicles and pelt stones after a Hindu activist was killed. Reports said that at least 20 people were injured in the unrest, after the killing, a day earlier, of the member of the Hindu nationalist group Bajrang Dal in Shivamogga, Karnataka state. Karnataka, which is ruled by PM Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, has been on edge for several weeks after a ban on Muslim girls wearing the hijab in classrooms.
