A group of women in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district on Wednesday clashed with the police while trying to perform Hindu prayers at a mausoleum site, sparking tensions in the area, PTI reported.

The nearly 500-year-old mausoleum, located in Fatehpur’s Abu Nagar area , is of Nawab Abdul Samad Khan, an official who worked for Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Hindutva groups have claimed that the structure was constructed after razing a Hindu temple.

Around 6 pm on Wednesday, about 20 Hindu women, carrying earthen lamps and prayer material, approached the barricades around the mausoleum, PTI quoted Additional Superintendent of Police Mahendra Pal Singh as saying.

The site has been barricaded by the police because of ongoing litigation pertaining to it.

Some women on Wednesday allegedly tried

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