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Nearly a fortnight after the violence that shook Madhya Pradesh's Khargone during a Ram Navami procession on 10 April, videos of alleged calls for a boycott of Muslims in the district have surfaced on social media.
A video that supposedly originated in Ubdi village of the Khargone district shows people allegedly pledging to boycott a "community" and refrain from doing any business transactions with them. The clip went viral on social media on Sunday, 24 April.
The event shown in the video was reportedly conducted by an organisation called 'Gayatri Parivar' at a temple, where a woman could be seen reciting an oath to boycott the said community as others repeated after her.
In another viral video that was widely circulated on social media on 25 April, a van carrying sound boxes went about the streets making a public announcement, requesting the residents of the Hindu community to boycott those who were involved in the stone-pelting incident during the Ram Navami procession.
Speaking to The Quint, Acting SP Rohit Kashwani said that an FIR has been lodged in one of the cases and the other video is being investigated.
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