Women were gang-raped and pregnant women were disemboweled. Bands of angered Muslim youths targeted government buildings and Hindu residents in the old town. "As the moon of Ramadan is not sighted anywhere in Bangladesh, the holy month of fasting will begin Friday", banglanews24.com reported quoting the Islamic Foundation. We shall appeal to the Supreme Court. This demonstration was not isolated: a transnational wave of protest had stirred up Muslim communities worldwide, with events having been organized not only in Delhi, Calcutta, Benares, and Darjeeling but also in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Japan, Turkey, and France-to name but a few. ***(Brass 1997: 214–259); **(Sunday 20–26/12/1992), Chief Minister of Assam: Hiteshwar Saikia, Congress Party, June 1991–April 1996. Obviously, a new stage had been reached. The communal frenzy had reached such paroxysmal levels that it could not reasonably carry on. B. Vajpayee had remained popular. Some armed marchers started rioting, which soon turned into a police–Muslim confrontation. But the actual toll possibly amounts to 200 or 300 deaths. On December 8, the Gomti Express train was attacked by a Hindu mob, resulting in the deaths of between 4 and 15 Muslim passengers. It lasted only a few months. Six persons were killed in the violence. It did not last. The case came to symbolize the complicity and partiality of the state's justice system. ***(Mehta and Tiwari 2008); ***(Engineer 2009). The chief priest of the temple, Mahant Avaidyanath, was a former political leader of the Hindu Mahasabha. Meanwhile, the moon sighting committees in Delhi, Mumbai, Bihar, Lucknow and other major cities in India are busy in meetings and a formal announcement regarding start of Ramadan in the two countries is expected shortly. Hindu India felt betrayed. 07:45 pm Ramadan - the holy month of fasting will start in Bangladesh from Friday May 18, 2018 as the new moon is not sighted today i.e. Dhaka/Mumbai/Islamabad: Though not for the first time, but in a rarest of rare case, Muslims in India and Pakistan are welcoming Ramadan this year with those in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and other GCC states on the same day Thursday May 17, 2018. On October 9, the killing of a notorious criminal by the police led to clashes in different parts of the town, according to the Justice Heeraman Singh Commission of Inquiry. There were however a number of casualties (around twenty), and a fresh opportunity for the VHP to organize a new yatra, the Asthi Kalash Yatra-a procession carrying the ashes of «martyrs.» Passions were dramatically revived and, in spite of V.P. Between sixteen and twenty people died, most of them burned to death or hit by police bullets. The violence diminished. The chief minister of Maharashtra, Sudhakarrao Nain, lost the control of the situation. The main victims were poor Muslims who had already suffered during the 1984 gas catastrophe and middle-class Muslims from the BHEL industry (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited). Are Meerut, Bhagalpur, Mumbai, things of the past or shall we discover that the perpetrators are at work preparing the ground for some fresh violence, some efficient «cleansing», so that they spread their influence, extend their positions, and go many steps further? On October 4, the Puja Samiti (Prayers' Committee) decided that the Durga idol was to be immersed in a by-pass pool after passing through a Muslim-dominated area. In November 1990, in Uttar Pradesh (UP) itself, the CM Mulayam Singh Yadav (later called «Maulana Mulayam» by grateful Muslims-[maulana means Islamic scholar]) managed to save the Babri Masjid, at least temporarily, from two successive kar sevaks (Hindu volunteers) assaults. He was dubbed a «traitor», as formulated in the Urdu press. **(The Times of India 27/05/1988); **(India Today 15/06/1988); ***(Engineer 1988a), 1988; October 8–11: Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh), Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh: Narain Dutt Tiwari, Congress Party, June 1988–December 1989. At least eight were killed by the PAC who shot the victims dead inside their homes. [L. K. Advani->http://www.massviolence.org/Lal-Krishna-Advani,695?decoupe_recherche=advani], the BJP leader who was visiting the city at the time, had a narrow escape. The future is open (Alam 2008). The Mandal–Mandir affair had got the best of «messiah» [V. P. Singh->http://www.massviolence.org/V-P-Singh?decoupe_recherche=V.%20P.%20singh] (P. S. Jha 1990). People died in the mob violence, shooting by police, and in stabbing incidents.