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Five years later, the 59-year-old mason is still taking care of the only mosque in Muzaffarnagar’s Nanheda village. MUZAFFARNAGAR: At the height of communal tension during the 2013 riots in Muzaffarnagar when a group of rioters decided to demolish a 120-year-old mosque, Ramveer Kashyap put up a staunch defence, even gathering other villagers in his support. “I visited the village few years ago and was surprised to see a Hindu man looking after the mosque. At daybreak, he cleans up the mosque, lights a candle in the evening, and even gets the structure whitewashed before every Ramzan. My faith teaches me to respect all places of worship,” he told TOI.Incidentally, the village doesn’t have a single Muslim inhabitant..