Violent protests rocked Indian cities after the parliament recently passed a controversial bill moved by prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments.
Angry protesters in the Murshidabad district of the eastern state of West Bengal set fire to shopping malls and cars, hurled bombs and attacked a Hindu home, stabbing two people on Saturday, police said. Another person who was shot during the clashes succumbed to his injuries.