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UK Police Investigate ‘Racially Aggravated’ Vandalism Of Gandhi Statue

The Indian High Commission in the UK strongly condemned the vandalism as an attack on the legacy of the Mahatma just days before Gandhi Jayanti.

London: Britain’s Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday that it has begun its investigation into the criminal damage caused to Mahatma Gandhi’s statue at Tavistock Square in London, a crime which the force is treating as “racially aggravated”.

The police said it was called to the iconic statue on Sunday evening as reports emerged of the plinth being defaced with disturbing graffiti, condemned by the High Commission of India in London as a “violent attack”.

“We have begun an investigation into reports of criminal damage to a Mahatma Gandhi

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