'Booming' Indian restaurant has bricks hurled through window just weeks after opening

An Indian restaurant which has been 'booming' since first opening just a few weeks ago has already had bricks hurled through its windows. Family-run Indian restaurant Imli, which opened in Heywood on September 2, has been welcoming full bookings ever since opening its doors.

But in what the owners believed to be a targeted attack, a brick was hurled through one of its windows, with two other windows at the restaurant front left badly smashed up in the early hours of Sunday morning (September 25).

The newly-opened restaurant, which the family spent thousands decorating and transforming, is now looking like an 'eyesore' according to social media manager Hamza Kalil, with its owners now contemplating spending in excess of £10,000 on metal shutters to prevent it happening again.

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"We arrived at the restaurant on Sunday morning and saw they had put a window through with a brick. They have gone and smashed every other window at the restaurant too, which we have now had to board up temporarily with wooden covers," said Hamza, 25, whose father-in-law Abdul owns the business.

"At first we thought everything would have been taken and we had been completely ransacked. We assumed all the money would've been taken from the till but when we went inside, nothing had been taken at all.

"In this climate, it is not easy opening up a restaurant and we have already spent so much, and now we may have to fork out thousands more for some metal shutters."

Opened by Hamza's father-in-law Abdul, and managed by his son Sayed, the family say they will not have their spirits dampened by the incident, as their new