Muslims in Mumbra-Kausa suburb in Mumbai have urged authorities to provide an adequate burial grounds
Muslims in Mumbra-Kausa suburb in Mumbai have urged authorities to provide an adequate burial ground, revising years long promise that was never fulfilled.
According to a Nationalist Congress Party official, a development plan of 1999 shows that a five-acre plot in Kausa has been reserved for a burial ground.
Long years after the plan, the land plot is still part of a private property that has not been acquired.
Similar demands for a burial ground were made by the Muslim community in India’s smallest state of Goa in 2008.
Muslims have long complained of being discriminated in Hindu-majority India.
According to several media reports, Muslims account for 180 million of India’s 1.1 billion people, the world’s third-largest Muslim population after those of Indonesia and Pakistan.
