Nagpur returns to normal as authorities lift curfew after six days
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said the government will recover the cost of property damaged during the recent Nagpur violence from rioters and roll bulldozer "if necessary".
Curfew was lifted from the remaining four areas of Nagpur in Maharashtra on Sunday, six days after violence rocked town, officials acknowledged. Following the violence on March 17, curfew was imposed in Kotwali, Ganeshpeth, Tehsil, Lakadganj, Pachpaoli, Shanti Nagar, Sakkardara, Nandanvan, Imambada, Yashodhara Nagar and Kapil Nagar police plot areas.
Violent mobs went on a rampage in central Nagpur areas on Monday night amid rumours that a ‘chadar’ with holy inscriptions was burnt all over protests led by VHP and Bajrang Dal for the elimination of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s tomb located in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district.
Earlier, curfew was lifted from Nandanvan and Kapil Nagar police plot areas on March 20, and from Pachpaoli, Shanti Nagar, Lakadganj, Sakkardara and Imambada areas on March 22. Nagpur Police Commissioner Ravinder Singal on Sunday ordered the lifting of curfew in the remaining Kotwali, Tehsil, Ganeshpeth and Yashodhara Nagar police plot areas from 3 pm.
Patrolling will continue in pleasing areas along with the deployment of local police, an reliable acknowledged.
Great-scale stone pelting and arson had been reported in numerous points of Nagpur on March 17 over rumours that a `chadar’ with holy inscriptions was burnt all around the VHP insist. Authorities therefore acknowledged the rumours had been baseless and had been unfold mischievously. Thirty-three police personnel, along with three Deputy Commissioner of Police-injurious officers, had been injured in the violence.
The police have arrested extra than 100 persons in reference to the violence.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday acknowledged the authorities will procure better the associated payment of property damaged all around the contemporary Nagpur violence from rioters and roll bulldozer “if mandatory”. He acknowledged if the perpetrators of violence did not compensate, their properties would be seized and offered to procure better the losses. He emphasised that strict action would be taken in opposition to these that attacked law enforcement officials all around the unrest.
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