Muzaffarnagar/Shamli/Baghpat: Normal life in three districts engulfed in communal passions is at last returning to normal, with no untoward incidents in Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday.
Five more bodies were found from Mirapur, Shahpur, Kakrauli and Bhaurakalan localities on Tuesday taking the overall death toll to 47. Police had concealed the murder of a Hapur youth three days ago on Bhopa Road, while in Shamli a middle-aged man was killed.
Officially, the additional director general of police (law and order) Arun Kumar on Tuesday night confirmed the death of 34 persons.
Thirteen more companies of paramilitary forces arrived in Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday, with 975 people rounded up so far.
On Tuesday evening, the mutilated body of a youth was found from a forest near Sikhreda village under Mirapur police station area. FIR has been lodged against eight persons. The bodies of two other youths were found in Shoram village and Kaserwa under Shahpur police station area, while an unidentified body has been found in Bhaurakalan.
The mutilated body a man was found from Dhansri Ganga canal in Kakrauli. In Shamli district, a middle aged man was shot dead on Katha river bridge in Harsana village under Jhinjhana police station area.
Assailants wearing masks stabbed a farmer working in a field near Hasanpur Un Road under Thanabhavan police station area.
Two houses were torched on Monday night in Bawli village, while in Soop village, nearly 100 families fled their houses after two youths were attacked on Monday night.
District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma distributed Rs 10 lakh drafts each to the kin of 13 killed including Shahnawaz, Gaurav and Sachin, whose murders triggered communal violence.
Several thousand homeless people have taken refuge at ten places. These families have fled their homes after communal violence erupted.
