2015 Bharuch riots

The riots resulted in the deaths of three people, an unknown number of injuries, as well as several homes and businesses being burnt down.

Events of communal tensions before the riots: 9-11 December 2014 Pornographic cartoons of Muhammad circulated on the internet by Sunil Patel (Sunil Mansukhbhai Patel) of Ambheta village.

[4] Two men of the majority Hindu community and one man of the minority Muslim community were killed in Sunevkhurd village, where an ambulance under police protection was surrounded and attacked by a Muslim mob.

The Hindu patient inside the ambulance, who already had his skull hacked open, was stranded and later died of his injury.

[6] State Police had to fire tear gas to control the rioting mobs.