Nagpur violence: Maharashtra police registers FIR in opposition to VHP, Bajrang Dal for ’hurting non secular sentiments’

Nagpur Violence: The Maharashtra police in Nagpur has registered FIRs in opposition to office-bearers of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments throughout their protest demanding elimination of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s tomb in Sambhajinagar (beforehand Aurangaad).

The primary data report (FIR) was registered on the Ganeshpeth police station in opposition to Govind Shende, VHP’s secretary in-charge of Maharashtra and Goa and others, they mentioned. 

Violence erupted in central Nagpur’s Chitnis Park in Mahal space on Monday round 7.30 pm, with stones hurled at police amid rumours that the holy guide of a neighborhood was burnt throughout a VHP’s agitation in search of elimination of Aurangzeb’s tomb situated in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district. 

A criticism was lodged in opposition to the protesters after the agitation, accusing them of wounding the non secular sentiments of a neighborhood. Based mostly on the criticism, an FIR was registered, an official of Ganeshpeth police station mentioned.

Others named within the FIR in opposition to VHP and Bajrang Dal office-bearers embrace Amol Thakre, Dr Mahajan, Tayani, Rajat Puri, Sushil, Vrushabh Arkhel, Shubham and Mukesh Barapatre underneath provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), he mentioned. 

However no arrest has been made to this point, he mentioned. 

After the violence rocked the jap Maharashtra metropolis on Monday night time, the police imposed a curfew round 4.30 am on Tuesday, which continues to be in power in a number of areas, together with Kotwali, Ganeshpeth and Lakadganj, the place solely important motion is allowed, officers mentioned. 

Safety forces are patrolling 11 extremely delicate areas within the metropolis, and checkpoints have been arrange throughout town, they mentioned. To keep up legislation and order state of affairs, personnel of Fast Response Groups and Riot Management Police are stationed within the affected areas, and barricades have been set as much as block roads resulting in riot-hit zones. 

Retailers in curfew-affected areas remained shut all through the day, they mentioned. Earlier within the day, the VHP mentioned it will not tolerate any makes an attempt to glorify Aurangzeb and claimed the violence in Nagpur a day earlier than was pre-planned. 

The administration ought to take stern motion in opposition to these accountable for clashes and invoke Nationwide Safety Act (NSA), VHP Vidarbha Prant Sah Mantri Devesh Mishra advised reporters. He additionally rubbished claims of a ‘chadar’ with holy inscriptions being burnt throughout protests led by VHP and Bajrang Dal in Nagpur, which apparently triggered clashes.