{"id":13002,"date":"2013-09-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/09\/07\/mic-pkr-leaders-arrested-in-standoff-over-demolition-of-century-old-temple\/"},"modified":"2013-09-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T12:00:00","slug":"mic-pkr-leaders-arrested-in-standoff-over-demolition-of-century-old-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/09\/07\/mic-pkr-leaders-arrested-in-standoff-over-demolition-of-century-old-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC, PKR Leaders Arrested In Standoff Over Demolition Of Century-Old Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaymailonline.com\/malaysia\/article\/four-arrested-in-standoff-over-temple-demolition\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, September 1, 2013 (Malay Mail): (HPI Note: This report is of an the same incident as above). Nine individuals, including one PKR and six MIC Youth leaders, have been arrested so far in this morning&#8217;s standoff with Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) over an allegedly &#8220;illegal&#8221; demolition of the 101-year-old Hindu temple on Jalan P. Ramlee.<\/p>\n<p>Temple lawyer N. Surendran also alleged that &#8220;three or four gangsters,&#8221; whom he claimed had come with the council&#8217;s demolition team, assaulted him when he tried to stop them from tearing down the Golden Triangle Muneswarar Kuil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The standoff went on from about 8am to 10.30am when the contractors were brought in and they started work. &#8220;These DBKL officers smashed three deities and took them out. We confronted them and asked for a negotiation but they continued to work until 10.30am until the cops came in and asked them to leave,&#8221; Surendran told The Malay Mail Online when contacted this morning.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the demolition had been a surprise one as negotiation was still on-going when the contractors came in with their heavy machinery. &#8220;There was no notice, it was a demolition by ambush&#8230; they just came in a day after Merdeka and began breaking it down. Negotiation was supposed to be still on-going&#8230; and there was no court order permitting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KUALA LUMPUR, September 1, 2013 (Malay Mail): (HPI Note: This report is of an the same incident as above).,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}